Fwd: News: W3C home page genuinely served as UTF-8

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 17:02:19 EST

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    >From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
    >Subject: News: W3C home page genuinely served as UTF-8
    >
    >This is just a very small news item that I wanted to share:
    >(probably too little too late, but a step in the right
    >direction anyway)
    >
    >Since a few minutes, the W3C home page at http://www.w3.org
    >is finally served genuinely as UTF-8. It was already served
    >with UTF-8 as the charset/encoding for a while, but numeric
    >character references were used for the few non-US-ASCII
    >characters (copyright, registered) in the page, so that
    >the charset/encoding was not particularly relevant.
    >
    >Regards, Martin.



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