In fact, there's no valid reason to not use utf-8.

However, in particular in windows french, there are still a lot of software 
which don't manage well with utf-8. 
Same thing with some web provider which still provide some database blocked on 
cp 1252 (windows encoding).
There is some historic reasons  for web-apps (really difficult to use utf-8 
before mysql 4 and php 5).
So it can be sometimes really difficult to manage with utf-8 depending of the 
context!

But we agree, utf-8 is the best to use!


Le 29 oct. 2010 à 20:40, Greg Brown a écrit :

> Good to know. But I'd still ask, why not just use UTF-8?  ;-)
> 
> On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Thomas Leclaire wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Euro symbol is not in ISO 8859 −1 but in ISO 8859-15
>> 
>> 
>> see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#ISO_8859-15
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>> 
>> 
>> Le 29 oct. 2010 à 18:23, Jérôme Serré a écrit :
>> 
>>> Because i have to use the French character é, à etc...
>>> 
>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>> De : Greg Brown [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>> Envoyé : vendredi 29 octobre 2010 18:19
>>> À : [email protected]
>>> Objet : Re: Character '€'
>>> 
>>> Probably a file encoding mismatch. Why are you using ISO-8859 instead of 
>>> UTF-8?
>>> 
>>> On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Jérôme Serré wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The  character ‘€’ in a file wtkx is represented as a square on the 
>>>> screen. is this normal ?
>>>> 
>>>> <? Xml version = "1.0" encoding = "ISO-8859-1"?>
>>>> .....
>>>> <BoxPane Form.label="Prix (€)">
>>>> .....
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> Cordialement
>>>> 
>>>> Jérôme Serré
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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