- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:51:52 +0200 (EET)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Andreas Prilop wrote: >> Whether iso-8859-3 is really _needed_ is debatable. It might be better not >> to support it, thereby encourageing authors to move to other encodings. > > ISO-8859-3 used to be popular with esperantists. Yes, because it is the only 8-bit encoding that supports all Esperanto letters. > Don't know if it still is. It isn't. Unicode, as UTF-8, gives better results, because many existing browsers don't recognize the ISO-8859-3 encoding but have no difficulties with UTF-8. Bertil(o) Wennergren, an expert on representing Esperanto on computers and on the WWW in particular, definitely prefers UTF-8: http://bertilow.com/html/esperantaj/ That's why I think it's not necessary to support ISO-8859-3 in the validator - but it _is_ necessary to support the encodings that you purport to support. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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