Why web authors must specify character encodings - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Jun 09
  

  Dan Smith

  utf8 charset

  • One final note, about two technical terms that often come up in discussions of this topic: Unicode is the standard that contains the "complete" list of characters. UTF-8 is a new(er) encoding that can encode all the characters in Unicode. If everybody used UTF-8, all these problems could go away.
• 06 Nov 08
  

  I've been looking for a clear explanation of why it's important to label Web pages with character encodings. I want it because I want something to point to when emailing Web authors who don't when their pages cause problems for me (and my default of UTF-8

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  I've been looking for a clear explanation of why it's important to label Web pages with character encodings. I want it because I want something to point to when emailing Web authors who don't when their pages cause problems for me (and my default of UTF-8

  (ma.gnolia_import) blog language international character unicode utf-8 web_design character_map web_development character_encoding doctype (delicious_import)

• 08 Apr 06
  

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  accessibility character_encoding unicode webdev

• 21 Feb 06
  

  Michael C. Harris

  web xhtml unicode encoding internationalization

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