Re: character encosing

[Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

e-letter wrote:
> How best should technical authors consider various character encoding,
> e.g. when creating an html formatted document, such that all
> characters are legible?

Always indicate the character encoding you've used.  If you don't,
applications will guess -- some well, some not so well.  Help stamp
out guessing.

Here's Joel Spolsky on character encoding:
  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Here's the most comprehensive treatment I've seen:
  http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

> Personally, I like utf-8. :)

Me too, since it can represent anything yet preserves a good measure
of compatibility with the brain-dead past.

LQ
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