On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:10:28 +0100, "J.O. Aho"
<user@example.net> wrote:

>Kees Nuyt wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:12:32 -0500, firewoodtim@yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>>

[snip]

>> Using UTF-8 won't hurt.
>> For the ASCII part (0-9, A-Z, a-z, almost all punctation)
>> the bytes are exactly the same.
>> Only special characters need a 2 or sometimes 3 byte
>> sequence.
>
>The characters with ASCII value 127 and lower are the same, everything else
>are different.
>
>
>> Mixed encoding within a web page isn't really possible.
>> The whole page uses whatever is declared in the encoding
>> header, the DOCUMENT TYPE or in the meta header.
>> You can't switch to another encoding halfway.
>
>If the data in the database is mixed, then the charset has to be unified
>before injected into the "page", or else characters may not be displayes
>correctly, trying to show iso-8859 characters as UTF-8 will result in quite
>many question marks and the other way around will result in strange characters.

I agree.
--
( Kees
)
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