On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:22:48 -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Richard
Grevers wrote:
>>It would be safer to add in a meta tag too I suppose, I'll do that...
>
>While you're about it, is there a concensus on the best encoding to use on
general
>pages? 8859-15 ensures no problems should people
use the likes of a Euro symbol
in
an article.
Most definitions I've seen describe 8859-15 as "intended to replace
8859-1".
I assumed that the encoding in the meta tag would be exactly the same as
the encoding in the http headers. Any objection to that? I think
switching from 8859-1 to 8859-15 is a separate issue, worth discussing.
For instance, how much software supports 8859-15?
Or to rephrase, is there any that doesn't? I've sued it on all my pages for
a year
now, and I can't recall any browser that fails to render because of the encoding.
I must try the shopping basket I've just written (option for Euros) in Lynx.
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