daddyalfie Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 Can anyone explain to me the meaning of those Charsets? Does it make any difference whether you use charset=iso-8859-1 or utf-8 or whatever? Any one more universal than another? Alfie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSW Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 UTF-8 is more universal then the iso version. The iso version is, simply put, old school. It was the original thing used to specify what characters to use and is language specific, there are different character sets for different languages wether latin based or Cryllic based etc. UTF-8 and UTF-16 were created later to be universal. UTF-16 allows more, but UTF-8 is more common. Whenever you write correct XHTML UTF-8/16 should always be used. basic HTML can still use iso... but I always figured that if I am going to use UTF for XHTML I might as well use it for everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddyalfie Posted November 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 That was clear as a martini: I shall toast with one tonight! Thanks, Alfie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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