Re: OT: CXS chart and machine-readable Unicode->CXS mappings

Hi!

John writes:
> Henrik Theiling scripsit:
>
> > I'll try to change it to utf8, though. Let's see what my test
> > browser Netscape 4.74 does with that.
>
> Netscape 4 is (a) used by well under 1% of the web audience these
> days and (b) incredibly broken about Unicode,
Yes, exactly.  That's why I test my pages with it.  It is also very
intolerant wrt. malformed HTML.  Good!

My normal browser is Galeon with a current Mozilla engine.  I usually
also check the pages with Links and sometimes with Lynx (though I like
tables too much to take it very seriously) just to see that there is
at least some information left.

Then, if all my browsers, modern, text and old and broken, can display
a page, it cannot be too wrong.

> In particular, NS4 understands character references correctly if and
> only if the encoding is UTF-8.
Ah, ok.  I changed the charset from iso-8859-1 to utf8 throughout my
site.  Hopefully it is better now with modern browsers.  It does not
seem to break old browsers.

Bye,
  Henrik

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