> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Falck > Sent: 20 February 2005 04:26
> In this matter, I am also wondering where using a meta tag > specifying iso-8859-1 fits in terms of following the > standards. I notice many people do this and I gather the > actual coding of keystrokes (on a standard PC keyboard set up > for US English) should be the same. Is saving a file as UTF-8 > compatible with the iso-8859-1 meta tag? Nope. Please save the file in the same encoding as you declare it to be in the meta statement. This seems to be such a common question/mistake that the W3C is beginning to write an article on the subject. The basic ASCII set of characters (ie. the first 127 characters) use the same bytes in iso 8895-1 and utf-8, but as soon as you include a copyright sign, an accented character, etc, you will have problems. Besides which, it is always better to be consistent anyway, and doesn't cost much. hth RI ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
