Quoting steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > To create a multilingual webiste would it be best to use UFT8 encoding?
Using UTF-8 or UTF-16 would make a lot of things easier, given that they can handle the entire repetoire of Unicode directly (without the need for escape sequences). UTF-16 will result in smaller downloads for East Asian and Indic languages, UTF-8 will result in the same or smaller downloads for everything else. If you want to just go with one encoding throughout your site and you don't have an over-whelming majority of East Asian documents then I'd recommend go with UTF-8. I > have noticed a lot of Japanese sites use shift-jis, why is this? Because it's a Japanese encoding; same reason a lot of English sites use ISO 8859-1 or US-ASCII. Do all > browsers support unicode now? For small values of "all"; there are browsers out there that don't support anything except ISO 8859-1 and even a few that get downright confused by anything that isn't ASCII. Who knows, maybe there are even people using them! In any case, browsers that don't support UTF-8 and UTF-16 are now a very small minority. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> *Thought provoking quote goes here*
