Re: Polish codepages

From: Piotr Trzcionkowski (ptrzcionkowski@famur.com.pl)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 06:20:51 EST


From: "Robert Brady" <robert@susu.org.uk>

> > I don't need excuse because using utf-16. My pages are well readable on
> >web browsers which support Unicode.
>
> "It works for me" is not a sufficiently good reason to do something.

For you or for me ?

On MY platform it is NATIVE coding. I use it DIRECTLY without ANY work.

>Why
> not use
>
> a) ASCII, with character entity references

ASCII ? Why not use Morse's code with entities ?

> b) UTF-8

What for, EXACTLY ?!

> both of which are INFINITELY preferable to the sick idea of using UTF-16
> for web pages.

Utf-16 is another encodings. Even if today isn't very popular, software which support it is very popular.

> > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-16
> >
> > Tell this to server which public my pages.
>
> That's your problem, not mine.

I have no problem. :-)))



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