I think you're missing my point. On my computer, the text on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese sites is mostly a bunch of boxes, since those fonts aren't installed and the glyphs don't exist in whatever font my web browser is substituting.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Davis, David <david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com> wrote: > Oh come on, Robert, it's not 1995 any more. There is such a thing as Unicode. > http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-who-uses-unicode. > I'd like to see you write a webpage in Japanese using just ISO 8859-1 :) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 09:53:43 -0700 > From: Robert Lauriston <rob...@lauriston.com> > To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Subject: Re: Quoted speech > Message-ID: > <can3yy4a87kg9+rybbaeprd_ep-twv86q_inkkvdpsoebezp...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Coding the HTML correctly doesn't ensure that the reader's system has the > necessary character. > > Best practice is generally to stick to the extended 8-bit ASCII character > set (ISO 8859-1), which does not include U+2018, U+2019, > U+201C, or U+201D. > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Davis, David > <david.da...@non.schneider-electric.com> wrote: >> Theresa, >> There should be no problem with those characters in HTML, so long as >> you put the correct declarations in the Header part of the page (to declare >> what character set you are using). If you look at a Japanese, Korean or >> Chinese site, for instance, you'll generally see they manage to have a >> plenty of non-ASCII characters in them ;) Alternatively, you can put & >> escape sequences in your HTML for those characters. > _____________________________ > > *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached > files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is > addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally > privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its > status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete > this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any > purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from > a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys Limited, which is a > company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd > Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a > list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please select the > Legal Entities link at invensys.com. Invensys Limited is owned by the > Schneider-Electric Group. > > You may contact Invensys Limited on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail > recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be > subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its > subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and > affiliates). > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as rob...@lauriston.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/robert%40lauriston.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
