Unicode...

[Asher]

Why isn't Apolyton using unicode as the default charset to use? Wouldn't that make sense, given the international scope of the site?

[vovan]

Given that people technically aren't allowed to use any language other than english, I'd say it makes sense to use the Western European encoding thing or whatever.

Besides, if you look at the source, they are using the following meta tag:

<meta NAME="language" CONTENT="en-us">

That explains the fact that the default encoding is not unicode, doesn't it?

[Asher]

No, because that's a metatag for search engines. They'd need to edit apache.

The reason I ask is because the people on Macs use unicode for everything, so when they use non-ASCII chars for like accented e's, they look screwed up by default on non-Macs.

Unicode makes more sense.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Asher
No, because that's a metatag for search engines.

Not really. In the absence of an explicit encoding tag, the browser chooses apropriate encding depending on the language setting.

[MattH]

No, because that's a metatag for search engines. They'd need to edit apache.

You mean the templates, right? Not apache...

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Asher
No, because that's a metatag for search engines. They'd need to edit apache.

The reason I ask is because the people on Macs use unicode for everything, so when they use non-ASCII chars for like accented e's, they look screwed up by default on non-Macs.

Unicode makes more sense.

Aah, I was wondering why Agathon's posts were filled with jumbled garbage.

[Zopperoni]

That's not always just because of "unicode".

[alva]

@Zop;

I think that's what Ixy was implying...

[Asher]

Originally posted by vovan
Not really. In the absence of an explicit encoding tag, the browser chooses apropriate encding depending on the language setting.

Which doesn't really matter, because each browser chooses differently (Safari chooses Unicode, IE/Firefox/Mozilla choose Western).

The proper solution is for the HTTP server to define the encoding to be used. Mismatch is bad.

[joncha]

Originally posted by ixnay


Aah, I was wondering why Agathon's posts were filled with jumbled garbage.

[Urban Ranger]

Or they could just use "http-equiv"...

[MrWhereItsAt]

For those of us totally clueless about what this all means - what WOULD it hypothetically mean to you or me typing away on Poly?

[Urban Ranger]

Nothing mostly, if you use English. It only matters if you want to use certain languages such as Greek or Chinese.

This encoding business tells the browser how certain sequences of bytes should be displayed.

[Robert]

This is a private site
If you want unicode you are free to setup your own site with as much unicode as you like

Nobody forces you to stay here.
There is no freedom of unicode-speech here. Live with it.

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