UTF-8 is not a language.
Jony
At 16:42 02/12/99 -0800, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
>A. Vine <avine@eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
>>I _can_ serve UTF-8 to folks in HTML pages should they choose UTF-8
>> as their preferred charset (providing our customers gave their customers
>that
>> option). But as it turns out, very few folks actually _do_ choose UTF-8,
>or
>> request multilingual capabilities which results in our serving them UTF-8.
>
>> I think we're moving in that direction. But there's a lot of old HTML
>browsers
>> out there, and as we're trying to reach a broad audience, we do a lot of
>> conversion from our internal Unicode into other charsets.
>
>It's not even just old browsers - IE 5 has a large range of languages you
>can set in
>order of preference for requesting content but it has no option for UTF-8 so
>is never
>going to request it even though it can display UTF-8 text correctly for many
>languages
>and scripts.
>
>- Chris
>
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