Re: [tlug] japanese encoding question

[Rudolf Ammann <ammann@example.com>]

>That's hilarious. I appreciate your good intentions but I can't even get
>then to use   there is no chance they will do use the other ones.
>  
>

Hi,

The hip cats on the block are moving on to XHTML 1.0 with UTF-8 for 
character encoding. Here's an example:

http://www.pallanoia.org

Unicode has the obvious advantage that it removes the need for those 
pesky HTML entities. Its drawback is that older browsers, Netscape 4.x 
comes to mind, probably won't be very happy with it, but then these 
browsers have a market share that may be negligible by now.

While private projects such as weblogs can afford to be ahead of the 
curve and use a charset that isn't universally supported yet, I'd like 
to hear a technologically educated opinion on how viable UTF-8 is for 
business sites.

:: Rudolf
:: http://www.tawawa.org