Kathleen Anderson wrote: > Could someone explain, in layperson's terms, if using <meta > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> is > preferred over <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=windows-1252"> The short answer is "you don't need either, most of the time." The default charset is UTF-8, which is identical to ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1). You only need to specify Windows 1252 if you are using non-Unicode Windows software and have "hard-coded" characters such as euro sign, daggers, em dash, which are where Latin-1 and Windows 1252 differ. If you use entities (e.g., — for an em dash) or compose with Unicode-compliant software, you are safe skipping the charset declaration. Of course, if you're coding in Gujarati or Korean that's another story . . . Thanasis Kinias Information Dissemination Team, Information Technology Arizona State University Tempe, Ariz., U.S.A. Qui nos rodunt confundantur et cum iustis non scribantur.Received on Wednesday, 7 March 2001 12:43:30 UTC
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