On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:50:06 +0100, Wayne pollock <[email protected]>
wrote:
But security is vital, so I agree it is not wise to change the order. I
guess the best procedure is to convert all files on a server to a single
encoding. (While I like UTF-8 too, I can see where that is biased
against non-Western languages and no single byte encoding will work well
for everyone.)
Using UTF-8 always is fine, even for non-Western languages:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0087.html
There are also some other reasons why you would want to use UTF-8:
http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/09/utf-8-reasons
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Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
