At 00:39 -0500 2002-01-21, Aman Chawla wrote: >The issue was originally brought up to gather opinion from members of this >list as to whether UTF-8 or ISCII should be used for creating Devanagari web >pages. The point is not to criticise Unicode but to gather opinions of >informed persons (list members) and determine what is the best >encoding for information interchange in South-Asian scripts...
If you want only local users who have ISCII fonts to read them, use ISCII. I wouldn't be able to read such pages, though, because I don't have any ISCII support under Mac OS X. I *do* have Unicode-based Devanagari supportm though. The best encoding for information interchange is to use a SINGLE encoding, namely Unicode. For the Web, use UTF-8. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
