Paul Eggert wrote:
(ISO-8859-1 isn't universally recognized, though, particularly in the Far East; we should stick with ASCII if we're not prepared to go with UTF-8.)
1. There are in the POSIX 1 region of characters below code position 128 no significant differences between the encodings us-ascii, iso-8859-1 and utf-8. 2. If an html page will be viewed off-line, it would be useful to put a <meta> tag in the <head> section describing a character set. iso-8859-1 would be the most compatible, even for (localized versions of) browsers used in countries with other character sets. Some - admittedly, few - browsers refuse to open utf-8, are not able to process literally encoded multibyte utf-8, or very oddly, do not recognise a "us-ascii" character set meta-tag. Oscar van Vlijmen 2003-10-13
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:44:05 -0700 To: Oscar van Vlijmen <ovv@hetnet.nl> Cc: TZ-list <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Subject: Re: zic.8 in html Sorry I cannot reply to Paul directly. A previously sent email bounced back with a strange error:
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