- From: r12a <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 12:17:10 +0100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>, Richard Zucht <pgr.zucht@gmail.com>, www-validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>
On 19/09/2016 10:53, David Dorward wrote: > 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 > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317752.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396>. These articles may be of some help: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-what-is-encoding ri
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