Re: UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 in web pages

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Op di, 26-04-2005 te 01:05 +0300, schreef Heikki Johannes Junes:
> Seems like two encodings, UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1, become mixed in the web pages.
> The reason for this is that not all pages specify the encoding which they 
> use. 
> 
> The main page, http://www.lilypond.org/, specifies and uses UTF-8, which is 
> ok.
> But if you then click the link of the Development documentation and enter to 
> the
> page, the encoding is not specified but, luckily, the page is correctly shown.
> However, if you then click "Thank yous", you will see that, again, the 
> encoding
> will remain as UTF-8 (since it is not specified) but the page is unfortunately
> coded with ISO-8859-1. As a result, you will have question marks ('?') instead
> of o-umlaut ('ö').
> 
> The correct solution is to specify the encoding in each web page. But, the
> question for the future is that should one solely stick to UTF-8 encoding in 
> the
> web pages? One engineering challenge here is that some of the pages contain
> inclusions from the source files which may not be in UTF-8 format.
> 

All pages (except documentation of 2.4 and earlier) should be utf-8. 

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