Thanks for the extremely helpful info. Apparently a recent update to the
seamonkey html editor has made windows-1252 the default and can not be
changed. I shall continue with SeaMonkey and windows-1252.
Gary
On 03/11/2013 10:05 AM, MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 11/03/2013 10:14, Gary Montalbine told the world:
I have this website:
http://knottsislandonline.com/kiscrapbook/index.html
Using seamonkey as my html editor, I have just noticed my charset has
changed to<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" in the new
updates. My default is<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1". A
random check of my html files on my harddrive indicates my files are
changed whenever I access them via seamonkey. This has happened sometime
in the last 2 weeks. There has been no change to the html files on the
web that are older than 2 weeks. I have no idea what charset is/means or
it's effect. When I save a file with charset=ISO-8859-1" it is
automatically changed to charset=windows-1252. I have no choice. WHY?????
Thanks, Gary
By declaring a charset, you tell the browser of the website visitor how
to interpret the binary codes that make up the HTML. If you declare
ASCII, for instance, the browser will consider any character other than
the old 7-bit US-ASCII as "invalid". That gives you just 95 printable
characters, leaving out all the international characters, like "รก". You
would have to resort to character entities like "á" to get the
same effect, which is a bit cumbersome.
iso-8859-1 is a standard for Western European character encoding. It
adds almost a hundred new characters, covering most Western European
languages. So by declaring iso-8859-1 you can write in French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch etc. without resorting to cumbersome
entities, just by typing the words.
Windows-1252 is a superset of iso-8859-1. Basically, by declaring
windows-1252 you get to use some 32 Windows characters that are
forbidden in iso-8859-1, and you lose nothing.
This Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
has an easy-to-understand table right on the top right. Black characters
are ASCII, green ones are the ones added by iso-8859-1, red ones are
added by windows-1252.
Of course, if you want to use other characters, like Greek, Cyrillic,
Indian scripts, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and such, not even
windows-1252 will suffice. That's where Unicode comes in, but that's a
subject for another time.
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