why not to stick with UTF-8 and UTF-16 for Chinese?
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:47:32 +1000, Neerav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats interesting, personally I like to be specific about the charset eg: > > Chinese Traditional > Taiwan, Hong Kong > <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=big5" /> > > Chinese Simplified > China mainland, Singapore and Malaysia > <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" /> > > > > Neerav Bhatt > http://www.bhatt.id.au > Web Development & IT consultancy > > http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/ - Ramblings Thoughts > http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/neerav > > Francesco wrote: > >>>The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively > >>>Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - > >>>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > >>> > > > > > > > > I read this entire article, then changed the first meta tag on a test > > page to be: > > > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > > > then I went to the Chinese translation of Joel's page and cut and pasted > > some Chinese characters into my html page, saved it, and loaded it in IE > > expecting to see Chinese side by side to my English text. Nope. Still > > gibberish. What did I do wrong? > > > > Francesco Sanfilippo, Internet Developer > > ------------------------------------------- > > Blackcoil Productions - http://blackcoil.com > > URL123 Link Service - http://url123.com > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- http://www.W3planet.info/ http://www.EasyHTTP.com/jad/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
