Re: Zip vs. Non Zipped and ISO 15924 draft fixes

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 11:11:41 CDT

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    Jon Hanna scripsit:

    > [T]he default encoding on the server (which really should be utf-8
    > on www.unicode.org at this stage).

    Currently it is, but there are sticky issues: in particular, a default encoding
    overrides information in HTML meta elements as well as browser heuristics,
    at least for modern browsers.

    Consequently, random pages that happen to be in non-Unicode charsets are
    getting mis-served and mis-displayed. The site will probably revert to
    having no default as a result, which is a great pity.

    Talk to Sarasvati if you have a better idea.

    > If there are legacy .txt files that would prohibit moving the default to utf-8

    And legacy HTML, it seems.

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    John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com  jcowan@reutershealth.com
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