- From: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:58:55 +0200
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
“It it sometimes assumed that Unicode is a popular encoding "behind the scenes" but rarely used on the home pages of major Web sites.” <tongue-in-cheek> Shouldn’t that sentence better read: It it sometimes assumed that Unicode is a popular encoding "behind the scenes" but this is never the case. Unicode ist not a character encoding. Unicode is a character set and is used on all Web pages of the world. [http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-doc-charset] </tongue-in-cheek> Other W3C i8n articles try to make clear the difference between character set and character encoding, but the wording used in this article kind of undermines this. Suggestion: Replace "Unicode" with "a Unicode encoding" throughout the article. And replace "home pages" with "Web pages" or (better) delete and make it: It it sometimes assumed that Unicode encodings are popular "behind the scenes" but rarely used on major Web sites. Regards, Gunnar
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