Re: OT: Question: Unicode

On Sun, 18 May 2003 01:48:50 -0500, Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
wrote:

>Roger Mills wrote:
>
>
>> I've created a web page using MS Word, and Lucida Sans Unicode.  In the
>> header, MS says "charset-MS 1252" or somesuch. Should this be changed to
>> UTF8?
>
>Well, you should say UTF-8 if the text file is in UTF format, that is, if
>you will give entities above ASCII with variable length codes (those that
>look like ë for an á).  You should use MS 1252, or better: ISO-8859-1, if
>you plan to use Latin-1 codes (as in this e-mail) and html numeric entities
>(those codes that look like "&#8221;") for Unicode values over 255.
In theory this is correct, but some browsers won't correctly display
Unicode characters unless you specify the character set as UTF-8 in the
header.