Re: FW: A question about charset

From: Mark Davis (markdavis@ispchannel.com)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 01:35:38 EDT


We are gradually moving our pages to UTF-8 as we update them.
Secondly, UTF-8 is recommended for web pages over UTF-16. Thirdly, you
are always better off explicitly declaring a charset in all web pages.

"Magda Danish (Unicode)" wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: munzir obeid [mailto:munzirtaha@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 11:12 AM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: A question about charset
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I noticed in your What is Unicode? page that you use the charset
> UTF-8 where as in your other pages windows-1252. Will you please
> explain to me why? And even why don't you use utf-16? I am designing
> a multilingual site, do i need to use different encoding in each
> page or what?
>
> thanks for your efforts
>
>
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