Claude Schneegans wrote: >> Because not all commonly used characters are in ISO-8859-1. > > I know that you are a fervent suporter of Unicode, and I'm also, but only > where I need it, > For some pages in some sites in some languages, YES, but for most european > languages, > iso-8859-1 is the standard.
ISO-8859-1 doesn't even have the euro. >> ISO-8859-1 has never been the default charset in the internet. > > Officially not, but de facto, yes. The time that internet was an exclusive North America and Western Europe party was also the time that US_ASCII was the standard. After that ISO-8859-1 may have been the biggest and the combined ISO-8859-x charsets carried considerable weight, but they were not a default standard. If only for the existence of Win1252, which is the subtly different Windows default. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:191306 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
