- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:53:39 +0100
- To: "Richard Zucht" <pgr.zucht@gmail.com>, "www-validator Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
Received on Monday, 19 September 2016 09:54:10 UTC
On 19 Sep 2016, at 10:31, Richard Zucht wrote: > I am attaching a screendump to show you how the German word > "geändert" > appears when UTF-8 is specified. That is what happens when you specify UTF-8 but save the document in a different character encoding. > I know what code is required to convert > the black dot to an umlaut. However, this makes editing a German text > cumbersome. You generally shouldn’t need any “code”. It’s just a preference in your editor. I can’t remember the last time I used a system which didn’t *default* to UTF-8. (Well, that is true for the simple case anyway, it’s possible to mangle characters through databases designed for legacy encodings and such, and if you’re stuck having to deal with a system like that then its a shame, and probably worth some investment to modernise it). > I hope you agree with me that demanding UTF-8 instead of Windows-1252 > is > nonsense. UTF-8 is a very well established modern standard that can handle just about any human language. Windows-1252 is a propriety extension to a legacy standard which can only handle a very small number of languages. Microsoft, who created Windows-1252, [recommend Unicode over it][1]. [1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317752.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Received on Monday, 19 September 2016 09:54:10 UTC