- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 22:08:48 +0900
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Guy Teasdale <Guy.Teasdale@bibl.ulaval.ca>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
At 00/05/05 22:49 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: >Guy Teasdale wrote: > > > > I am trying to understand how it works: > > > > I want to publish a text which contains non ISO-Latin Charsets. By exemple, > > there are many greek characters in this file: > > http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/doelec/theses/memoires/1999/ChRiviere/riv007.htm > > I chose to use an utf-8 charset in the Meta tag: > > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > >There are a couple of odd things, >secondly, there is absolutely no need to use UTF-8 for this >content, becase in fact it only uses ascii. All other characters, suchas >accented letters and greek, are done usingentities or NCRs. Very much so, except to work around a problem in Netscape 4.x. And actually using UTF-8 would be even nicer. Regards, Martin.
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