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#1 sam

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Posted 26 January 2008 - 05:23 PM

Hey Guys. What is the recommended chartset ? I have been using iso-8859-1 which is the default in dreamweaver. I am trying out Microsoft expression web and it uses utf-8 by default. I read elsewhere that the former is better because it has native support for more characters. Can somebody give some insight as to which one is the best to use along with reasons ? Thanks.

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#2 marcamos

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Posted 26 January 2008 - 10:20 PM

I recommend UTF-8 and this person's article explains it a bit: http://www.alanwood.....html#encodings

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#3 haku

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Posted 26 January 2008 - 11:26 PM

UTF-8. I feel quite confident on that having spent the last few months researching charsets (I program Japanese websites). Its definitely what you want as it has a wider range of characters from different languages.

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