Re: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?
True it probably isn't needed in most cases, except where it may be included in an html file that is not utf-8 and the CSS file actually contains utf-8 characters. In fact, according to w3c the character encoding is usually reliably determined form the first few bytes of the file anyways [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#q23]. Elsewhere it is said CSS files inherit the charset from the HTML file in which they are included, or default to utf-8. kind regards Terrence Wood. On 22 Jul 2005, at 4:59 PM, T. R. Valentine wrote: On 21/07/05, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use VS but generally UTF-8 or UTF-8 (no bom) is the best bet. Make sure you send the correct header or meta for your html files i.e. charset=utf-8. For CSS files include as the first line: @charset utf-8; Why should one include that as a first line? I normally save my files in UTF-8 format, do not use that as a first line, and have never experienced problems with my CSS files (I regularly use a meta tag charset=UTF-8 in my (X)HTML). Am I missing something? -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
RE: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?
Visual Studio? Honestly, who uses that? ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebecca CoxSent: Thursday, 21 July 2005 9:20 a.m.To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ? Hi all, I use Visual Studio to author both HTML and CSS and am not sure what is the best encoding option to choose. For HTML it needs to be Unicode/utf-8 but there are 4 different Unicode encodings to choose from! Does anyone use VS and know what a good default option would be? And would you use Unicode for CSS files as well? Cheers, Rebecca
Re: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?
I don't use VS but generally UTF-8 or UTF-8 (no bom) is the best bet. Make sure you send the correct header or meta for your html files i.e. charset=utf-8. For CSS files include as the first line: @charset utf-8; regards Terrence Wood. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?
On 21/07/05, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use VS but generally UTF-8 or UTF-8 (no bom) is the best bet. Make sure you send the correct header or meta for your html files i.e. charset=utf-8. For CSS files include as the first line: @charset utf-8; Why should one include that as a first line? I normally save my files in UTF-8 format, do not use that as a first line, and have never experienced problems with my CSS files (I regularly use a meta tag charset=UTF-8 in my (X)HTML). Am I missing something? -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
Re: [WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?
On 21 Jul 2005 at 9:19, Rebecca Cox wrote: For HTML it needs to be Unicode/utf-8 but there are 4 different Unicode encodings to choose from! Hi Rebecca, I do not use VS, but the encoding is separate, independet from the editor. If you want to create european/english pages with some Unicode- symbols, UTF-8 is normally the best. You can also create your CSS as UTF-8. A pure english-written file is only a little big bigger as the Ascii-Version (3 Bytes, the BOM). Asiatic languages may use GB2312 (Non-Unicode) or UTF-16, which is smaller than UTF-8 for these languages. There UTF-8 would need 3 bytes per character, UTF-16 needs only two bytes. Best Regards Juergen Auer http://www.sql-und-xml.de/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **
