[TxMt] more encodings

[Björn Wolf]

As far is i know even IE6 has problems with encodings served from a  
local disk (without response headers).
So it seems IE does not recognize a given charset in the local HTML  
file. Same file delivered from a properly configured server wouldnt  
cause any character-set related problems.

.bjoern

Am 27.05.2005 um 12:55 schrieb Allan Odgaard:

> On May 27, 2005, at 12:29, Zoltan Varady wrote:
>
>
>> True. I don't contest that UTF-8 is the way for the future.  
>> However I have lots of old projects I'm still working on that use  
>> iso-8859-2.
>>
>
> You can use iconv to convert them! :)
>
>
>> [...] while using UTF-8 as the encoding for my webpages often  
>> causes weirdness in some browsers
>>
>
> What browsers? Googling reveals that both IE 4 and NS 4 does  
> support UTF-8 and IETF wrote in 1998:
>
>               IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
>    [...]
>    Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset, which consists of
>    the ISO 10646 coded character set combined with the UTF-8 character
>    encoding scheme, as defined in [10646] Annex R (published in
>    Amendment 2), for all text.
>
>    Protocols MAY specify, in addition, how to use other charsets or
>    other character encoding schemes for ISO 10646, such as UTF-16, but
>    lack of an ability to use UTF-8 is a violation of this policy;  
> such a
>    violation would need a variance procedure ([BCP9] section 9) with
>    clear and solid justification in the protocol specification  
> document
>    before being entered into or advanced upon the standards track.
>
>    source: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2277.txt
>
> I'd be rather surprised to find a browser made in the last 7 years  
> which doesn't handle UTF-8.
>
> OTOH legacy encodings should be phased out, and TextMate takes an  
> active role in doing so! :)
>
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