Re: HTML <head> article updated

On 10 Aug 2011, at 20:36, Gunnar Bittersmann wrote:

>> "Don't worry too much about this for now. utf-8 is the universal
>> character set  […]"
> 
> No. UTF-8 is by no means a character set. It is a character encoding for the Unicode set. [1]
> 
> I’ve changed "character set" to "character encoding" in the wiki.
> 
> Yet "the character encoding of your documents: the range of different characters you want to use" still does not make much sense. Range of characters means actually a character set, and it’s about the characters used in the HTML source code, not the characters used in the page content.
> 
> The latter cannot be changed, it’s always the Unicode character set. [2]
> 
> Gunnar
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-what-is-encoding#what
> [2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-doc-charset

Thanks for the feedback Gunnar - this is useful, and much appreciated.

Received on Thursday, 11 August 2011 07:56:18 UTC