* Marco Cimarosti | | Only if the user selects a menu like "Manual encoding settings", she | should be presented with a choice like "International (Unicode)", | that opposes to "Western (ISO 8859-1)", "Chinese, simplified (GB | 2312-80)", and so on. All entries should have a generic descriptive | label together with a precise geek-friendly label in parenthesis.
This is what Mozilla does, and I seem to recall that IE does the same. (I can't check here, being Linux-only at home.) Opera has an encoding menu divided into Unicode / Western European / Central European / ... / Chinese / Japanese / Korean, where the choices on the next level are UTF-8, UTF-16 / ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows-1252 / ... Seems to work pretty well. -- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
