- From: Ian Graham <igraham@ic-unix.ic.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
- cc: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>, Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>, Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>, www-html@w3.org
Bertilo is correct -- things are fine if your documet only contains ASCII characters, as they map onto the same byte sequence in UTF-8. HOwever, things go wrong if you hav non-ascii characters in the document. They also fail (on Navigator 4 and earlier) if you have charcter references in the document that references non-latin-1 characters. For example, character references like ఴ (this is a made up number I'm afraid), which references the 3124th character in Unicode, will only work if you explicitlyu set UTF-8 using a META element. Ian On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Bertilo Wennergren wrote: > Chris Croome: > > > I have just tried installing Netscape 1, 2 and 3 on a windoze box and > > all 3 seem to be fine with UTF-8! > > That might be true ... if you look at pages that happen to use > only ASCII characters. ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. > > Try a UTF-8 page in e.g. Russian or German or French. > > ##################################################################### > Bertilo Wennergren > <http://purl.oclc.org/net/bertilo> > <bertilow@hem.passagen.se> > ##################################################################### > > > >
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