Re: website problems

Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Nebauer <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> This is what happens when you use a tool without fully understanding
> it.  This was the first time I used anything other than vim to edit
> html.  Turns out quanta defaults to saving as utf-8.  I've changed that
> setting to iso-9959-1, re-saved the files and committed them.  Let me
> know if that solves the problem.
>

:-) never stray far from your tried-and-true editor!

> As for switching to utf-8, I don't see any reason.  Where it makes no
> difference I think you should aim for the lowest common denominator.
> There are probably some holdout apps yet to fully support utf-8.
>

This also occurred to me after sending my reply. Lynx is probably the only
browser with quite a user base which might have problems, because it requires
your terminal and your fonts to be set up to use UTF-8. This is rarely the case
by default. I firmly believe that web pages should be accessible by Lynx, so
let's stick with ISO-8859-1.

regards,
Markus


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