Re: Quick encoding question

From: Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:54:30 +0100

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> You could declare it as UTF-8 on the grounds that ancient browsers
> (Netscape 4) do not interpret character references > 255 correctly
> unless UTF-8 is specified.

More exactly, the characters from the "Western character set"
on the respective operating system, i.e. Windows-1252 on
MS Windows and MacRoman on Macintosh.

> On the other hand, some even more ancient
> browsers might refuse to recognize UTF-8 at all.

Those browsers do not understand &#number; with number > 255
at all.

Bottomline:
If you have only &#number; expressions in your document,
set the charset to UTF-8.
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/checklist.html#s6

--
Netscape 3.04 does everything I need, and it's utterly reliable.
Why should I switch? Peter T. Daniels in <news:sci.lang>

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References:
- Quick encoding question
  - From: Ian Rastall
- Re: Quick encoding question
  - From: Jukka K. Korpela

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