Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-15 Thread Naena Guru
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Leif Halvard Silli xn--mlform-...@xn--mlform-iua.no wrote: Naena Guru, Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:40:19 -0500: HTML5 assumes UTF-8 as the character set if you do not declare one explicitly. My current pages are in HTML 4. There is in principle no difference

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-15 Thread Naena Guru
Hey, Philippe, Your input is much appreciated. So, in a nutshell, I don't have to worry. One of these days I need to crunch down (minify) the CSS and JavaScript pages. I left them readily readable so that techs like you could easily read them in place in any browser without having to pretty

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-11 Thread Leif Halvard Silli
Philippe Verdy, Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:36:56 +0200: 2012/7/11 Leif Halvard Silli: In VIM, you set or unset the BOM via the commands set bomb set nobomb Should these command specify if your computer will explode when saving the file ? :'o Probably signals the weird fear

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: As for editors: If your own editor have no problems with the BOM, then what? But I think Notepad can also save as UTF-8 but without the BOM - there should be possible to get an option for choosing when you save it. Perhaps there should be such an option in Notepad,

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-10 Thread Naena Guru
Thank you Otto. Sorry for delay in replying. I spent the entire Sunday replying Jaques twins. You are absolutely right about choice between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. I shouldn't have said 'using ISO-8859-1 is advantageous over UTF-8' It is efficient if your pages are written in a language that uses

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-10 Thread Philippe Verdy
2012/7/10 Naena Guru naenag...@gmail.com I wanted to see how hard it is to edit a page in Notepad. So I made a copy of my LIYANNA page and replaced the character entities I used for Unicode Sinhala, accented Pali and Sanskrit with their raw letters. Notepad forced me to save the file in UTF-8

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-10 Thread Leif Halvard Silli
Naena Guru, Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:40:19 -0500: HTML5 assumes UTF-8 as the character set if you do not declare one explicitly. My current pages are in HTML 4. There is in principle no difference between what HTML5-parsers assume and what HTML4-parsers assume: All of them default to the default

Re: Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-10 Thread Philippe Verdy
2012/7/11 Leif Halvard Silli xn--mlform-...@xn--mlform-iua.no: it. Else you can use the free Notepad++. And many others. In VIM, you set or unset the BOM via the commands set bomb set nobomb Should these command specify if your computer will explode when saving the file ?

Charset declaration in HTML (was: Romanized Singhala - Think about it again)

2012-07-04 Thread Otto Stolz
Hello Naena Guru, on 2012-07-04, you wrote: The purpose of declaring the character set as iso-8859-1 than utf-8 is to avoid doubling and trebling the size of the page by utf-8. I think, if you have characters outside iso-8859-1 and declare the page as such, you get Character-not-found for those