- From: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:54:32 +0600
- To: www-international@w3.org
Douglas Bagnall wrote: >> | Most Web pages use the UTF-8 encoding for Unicode text. > [...] >> Are you sure about "most Web pages" (as of today) ? > > This evoked a double take from me, too. I had to re-read to see that > "for Unicode text" was making a much smaller claim than I first thought. > In the sense in which it is meant, however (UTF-8 is more common than > UTF-[7,16,32] variants), it seems very likely true. I've run into many situations where I've had to resort to using numeric entities as the server used was not configured correctly for UTF-8 and there was nothing I could do about that. - Chris > Douglas >
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