Re: Not snazzy (was: New Unicode Savvy Logo)

From: Tom Gewecke (tom@bluesky.org)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 23:05:46 EDT

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    >> >My question is more related to the requirements to display such a logo.
    >> After
    >> >all, one could use this logo on a web site that uses a standardized
    >> encoding
    >> >like ISO-8859-1
    >>
    >> Why would you think that when the logo page says it must be UTF-8?
    >
    >No, the page suggests UTF-8 or an encoding form that complies with
    >Unicode... >(So I think it includes ISO-8859-1 which enough for most
    >European languages, >but still allows to use non Latin-1 characters as the
    >HTML/XML standard defines >character entities which is a particular way to
    >specify Unicode codepoints.)

    I wonder about this. The Unicode FAQ makes the point that some browsers
    will not display NCR's unless the charset is UTF-8. It does seem logical
    that, NCR's or not, a page with the logo should be in one of the three
    standard Unicode Encoding Forms, UTF-8, 16, or 32.



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