Notepad and UTF-8

Andreas Prilop wrote:

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
There are two other reasons for using UTF-8 that come to my mind:

There is one reason *not* to use UTF-8. Browsers usually take the
typeface depending on the page's charset. So with charset=iso-8859-5,
the page is displayed in the reader's preferred Cyrillic typeface.
But with charset=utf-8, the page is displayed in the reader's
preferred *Latin* typeface, which might be less suitable.

This reason is even more important for Chinese text.

However, when not using character references as made unnecessary when using
UTF-whatever for the document resource encoding, they pick the most suitable
installed font for displaying the character/glyph at the code point
specified by the respective code unit(s).

1) Some fairly old browsers handled character references with
numbers > 255 incorrectly unless UTF-8 was specified.

Actually with number > 127. With charset=iso-8859-5 (for example),
Netscape 4 would display Latin-1 letters written as &#number;
as question mark (?) because the Cyrillic ISO-8859-5 does not
contain Latin-1 letters.

Strange things you do. Leading to the dark side this is.


PointedEars
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