unicode

[Jeff Thies]

I've never given a lot of thought to charsets in html

But I've seen this (thanks Richard, see previous thread)

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode">

Normally I'd see something more like this: iso-8859-1

So, what are the advantages/disadvantages of unicode in html?

Jeff

 

[brucie]

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I've never given a lot of thought to charsets in html

A tutorial on character code issues
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

 

[David Dorward]

I've never given a lot of thought to charsets in html

But I've seen this (thanks Richard, see previous thread)

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode">

Well that is what is known as "tosh". "Unicode" isn't a character set, its a
group of character sets. UTF-8 UTF-16 and UTF-32.

Meta http-equiv is also pretty rubbish, with limited support. This
information should be sent using http headers.

Normally I'd see something more like this: iso-8859-1

So, what are the advantages/disadvantages of unicode in html?

Same as anywhere else. Different character sets have different characters in
them. Unicode character sets happen to be rather larger, so its possible to
mix characters from different alphabets in a single document.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

A tutorial on character code issues
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

Or maybe first
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/chars.var
which is much shorter and specifically about characters and encodings in
HTML context.

 

[Daniel R. Tobias]

Or maybe first
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/chars.var
which is much shorter and specifically about characters and encodings in
HTML context.

I also have some discussion of character sets/encodings in my sites:

http://webtips.dan.info/char.html
(discussion of character sets, encodings, and fonts from a Web
development perspective)

http://mailformat.dan.info/body/charsets.html
(discussion of character sets/encodings in e-mail)