* Marco Cimarosti
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| Only if the user selects a menu like "Manual encoding settings", she
| should be presented with a choice like "International (Unicode)",
| that opposes to "Western (ISO 8859-1)", "Chinese, simplified (GB
| 2312-80)", and so on. All entries should have a generic descriptive
| label together with a precise geek-friendly label in parenthesis.
This is what Mozilla does, and I seem to recall that IE does the
same. (I can't check here, being Linux-only at home.)
Opera has an encoding menu divided into Unicode / Western European /
Central European / ... / Chinese / Japanese / Korean, where the
choices on the next level are UTF-8, UTF-16 / ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15,
Windows-1252 / ...
Seems to work pretty well.
-- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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