| | i18n: HTML Character Set Issues beyond HTML3.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Using HTML in a single non-Latin-1 locale had been working for a considerable time already, and you can find appropriate resources on the WWW that cover one or other of those locales. |
 | | The terminology and usage of character representation has developed quite a bit since the MIME specifications were originally laid down, and this causes quite a lot of confusion, in as much as the attribute which the MIME specifications call |
 | | Browser support was originally better for utf-8 than it was for iso-8859-15, and I think it's fair to say that there is no point in using iso-8859-15 for encoding HTML documents, although it has found fairly wide user acceptance, in the European area, for use in Usenet (8-bit plain text) postings. |
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