Hi Roberto, I think this may answer many of your questions: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/
RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roberto Gorjão > Sent: 15 June 2005 10:27 > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: [WSG] Encoding, charsets and entities... > > Hi, > > I’m trying to understand the pros and cons of different > charset encodings and I would like to know what your > experience tells you about this subject, notably: > > * Unicode encoding (UTF-8) seems to be more efficient than ISO > charsets (iso-8859-1): It covers all the languages in a single > encoding; it’s universal (or at least getting to be); it’s > compatible with ASCII; some argue even that it’s quicker… Are > there any drawbacks? Does the fact that the characters > Unicode may > have different sizes affect string calculus with JavaScript? > String lengths, character position retrieval and so on? > * Where does the use of UTF leaves us regarding to entities? Some > say that we don’t have to worry anymore with coding currency > symbols or accented letters… Is that true? (I really > did never pay > much attention to this matter and get used to see > Dreamweaver code > automatically all accented letters that I insert in the > design tab > (that’s almost the only reason why I use the design tab > nowadays…) > but I think I would convert myself definitely to a much cheaper > software if even this functionality turns out to be > useless). And > what about quotation marks and less than and greater than signs? > They seem to validate all right when inserted directly > on the code > without any kind of special entities coding. > * Which is the best way to declare it? I’ve noticed that > webstandardsgroup.org page declares it only in the XML “prolog” > and does not use any meta tag to do it as does for instance the > Unicode.org page. > > Thank you. > > Roberto > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
