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Perhaps a stupid question, or i'm just misunderstading the concept of
character encoding.
But since we have UTF-8 encoding: is there still a place for ISO standards
on the web?

cheers,
Samuel van Laere



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On 2010-08-26 22:44:47 +0200, Samuel van Laere said:

> Perhaps a stupid question, or i'm just misunderstading the concept of
> character encoding.
> But since we have UTF-8 encoding: is there still a place for ISO
> standards on the web?
>
> cheers,
> Samuel van Laere
>
>
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> viruskenmerken 5400 (20100826) __________
>
> Het bericht is gecontroleerd door ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
>
> http://www.eset.com

I think it depends on your target audience. UTF-8 and 8859-1 are mostly
used for western audiences. The stadards ensures a correct encoding
(developers) and a correct decoding (users).
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R. Andersen

Samuel van Laere wrote:

> Perhaps a stupid question, or i'm just misunderstading the concept of
> character encoding.

All people misunderstand it...

> But since we have UTF-8 encoding: is there still a place for ISO
> standards on the web?

Pardon? UTF-8 _is_ a transfer encoding for an ISO standard character code,
ISO 10646, colloquially known as Unicode (the two are not identical, but
they are kept fully coordinated).

I guess you mean to ask "is there still a place for 8-bit encodings such as
ISO 8859-1?" Yes there is, in many cases where UTF-8 cannot be used for
technical reason (legacy software used to author pages, etc.) or need not be
used, because 99.9% of characters used in a site are representable in ISO
8859-1 and the rest can be handled using character references or entity
references.

There are probably still browsers that don't grok UTF-8, though hopefully
not many of them.

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On 2010-08-27 20:17:59 +0200, R. Andersen said:

> On 2010-08-26 22:44:47 +0200, Samuel van Laere said:
>
>> Perhaps a stupid question, or i'm just misunderstading the concept of
>> character encoding.
>> But since we have UTF-8 encoding: is there still a place for ISO
>> standards on the web?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Samuel van Laere
>>
>>
>> __________ Informatie van ESET NOD32 Antivirus, versie van database
>> viruskenmerken 5400 (20100826) __________
>>
>> Het bericht is gecontroleerd door ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
>>
>> http://www.eset.com
>
> I think it depends on your target audience. UTF-8 and 8859-1 are mostly
> used for western audiences. The stadards ensures a correct encoding
> (developers) and a correct decoding (users).

Ah I misunderstood your question. But yes ISO is stil useful. I use it
for my website since I have no need for extended characters.
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Regards,
R. Andersen