Joerg
Antonio Gallardo wrote:
Joerg Heinicke dijo:
Is there any problem with ISO-8859-1 or do you think switching to UTF-8 would be good in general?
I think switching all to UTF-8 would be good in general. It is a step ahead. UTF-8 is the default standard of every XML doc. The ISO-8859-1 is a deprecated encoding. The IETF recommend UTF-8 instead of any other flavor of ISO-885x-x. Windows changed to UNICODE. Linux is already using UTF-8 as the default encoding. Well, we are moving there.
AFAIK we (the world) are currently migrating all the computers and systems to the well know UNICODE. The idea is to allow all of us to mix on the same page code in German, Chinesse, English, etc. without have to worry of the encoding. The migration to UTF-8 is a important issue and since a date (sorry I dont remember the exactly date) any application cannot be considerated internet ready if it does not use UNICODE. Any application using ISO-8859 or similar will be cosiderated non-complaint.
I learned about all this stuff (UNICODE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1) when started in Cocoon I had the common problems generating the HTML pages. My target language (Spanish) needs ñ, Ñ, Á, á. etc. Of course other languages need other symbols that are not well rendered.
XHTML 1.0 also has UTF-8 as the default encoding. Java has UTF-8 as the default encoding. Many other applications are migrating or are already migrated.
Please read more about unicode at:
http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
By the way If we can change to UTF-8 I think many other problems will go away. On the other hand some old applications and browser will not be able to display UTF-8 correctly. I mean maybe IE 3.0 or below.
It is part of all this thing. And the is the main reason why we are having problems seeing the copyright symbol on the Cocoon main page of the distribution.
Best Regards,
Antonio Gallardo
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