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ISO-8859-n were pretty common in Europe, because they were the default charset on windows. Just checked the web pages of two major danish newspapers: They use I
by olavk 15y ago
ISO-8859-n were pretty common in Europe, because they were the default charset on windows. Just checked the web pages of two major danish newspapers: They use ISO-8859-1. Utf-8 is getting more widespread though.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoISO-8859-n is not Unicode.
- olavk 15y agoThey are considered unicode encodings.
- derleth 15y agoNo, they are not.
- olavk 15y agohttp://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html considers ISO-8859-n character encodings: "Commonly used character encodings on the Web include ISO-8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1"; usable for most Western European languages), ISO-8859-5 ..."
- guard-of-terra 15y agoISO-8859-5 has NEVER been a common encoding on the Web. KOI8-R was, then Windows-1251. Now it's often UTF-8.
- derleth 15y agoBut Latin-1 is not a Unicode encoding.
- sqrt17 15y agoISO-8859-n is not ASCII either, so if your software is not Unicode-aware (or encoding-aware) at all, things will break.
- obtu 15y agoThey aren't the default windows charsets. Windows code pages tend to be close, with differences here and there that are impossible to sniff for.