On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Vuillemot, Ward W wrote:
> > UNICODE is a character encoding that can handle any character irrespective of
>language
> > When I output to the web I will need to convert UNICODE to some appropriate
>character-set
> > based upon the language selection.
> > Is this correct?
>
> You can send Unicode directly to the Web browser. Just make sure you
> announce in the HTTP header that the body is encoded in UTF-8.
>
> Examples:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#examples
>
> If the locale fonts are not already in Unicode (they are today
> on all Windows and Mac machines, Linux and other Unices are following
> in the most recent versions), then it is the duty of the web browser
> to convert from Unicode into the local font encoding.
Sounds nice, but in practice this excludes a lot of users still.
Andrew
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