- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:35:10 +0100
- To: "'Gunnar Bittersmann'" <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
I think it's being slightly more precise than actually needed, but I changed the text to It is sometimes assumed that Unicode encodings are popular "behind the scenes" but rarely used on the pages of major Web sites. And added a note: In this article, Unicode is short for a Unicode encoding. Cheers, RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Gunnar Bittersmann [mailto:gunnar@bittersmann.de] > Sent: 04 September 2010 12:59 > To: Richard Ishida > Cc: www-international@w3.org > Subject: Updated article: Who uses Unicode? > > “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 > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3110 - Release Date: 09/03/10 > 19:34:00
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