- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:04:30 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Francois Yergeau wrote: >> >> I do not believe that your average user is likely to understand the >> concept of character sets, and I have no idea how I would even begin to >> write a warning message for this issue. > > Look at the Mozilla mailer. If you try to send a message with > out-of-encoding characters, it pops up a warning: "The message you > composed contains characters not found in the selected Character Coding, > so your message may become unreadable after you send or save it." It > then offers a choice of send anyway or cancel to fix things. If you > send anyway, the offending chars are replaced by question marks. That dialog exactly represents the problem I referred to. It is completely meaningless to most users. > > > encourage web page authors to upgrade to UTF-8. > > > > Indeed. But that doesn't help the ISO-8859-1 case. :-( > > Nothing will. I meant, it doesn't help me decide on what Mozilla and Opera should do in this case. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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