From: Dao Xuan Nam (namdx@fujitsu.com.vn)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 06:34:40 EDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
To: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages
> On 26/09/2003 06:16, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >Peter Kirk scripsit:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Almost all users of what? This isn't true of Windows, and for better or
> >>for worse the majority of all browser users use Windows. Windows, at
> >>least 98+, nags you to upgrade to the latest version of IE whether you
> >>want to or not - which is annoying on my old PC which hasn't got the
> >>disk space for IE6.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >True. But whatever isn't fixed in IE6 won't be fixed at all -- no more
> >upgrades (except, presumably, security-related ones) after that.
> >Microsoft has said so.
> >
> >
> >
> Well, looks like Microsoft won the browser wars and nearly killed off
> Netscape only to hand over their victory on a plate to whoever feels
> like taking the prize. Mozilla will be stepping up to take it. The
> problem is that this victory is expensive, and doesn't bring revenue
> because people have got used to browsers being free.
>
> But to come back to the issue, IE6 has adequate support for UTF-8 and
> many other encodings, so this is no excuse for not serving web pages in
> UTF-8.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter@qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
>
>
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