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Questions regarding encoding

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 1:18 pm
by Rasmus Bruun
When I write html-pages, I declare the encoding as ISO8859-1 this way:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

I want to save the html-file with this encoding, but it is not available. From what I know, the ANSI encoding is different from the ISO8859-1, so what is the proper encoding for saving my html-files in TextPad?

Also, is the "Unicode" encoding the same as UTF-16?

Kind regards,
Rasmus Bruun, Denmark

Re: Questions regarding encoding

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 5:41 pm
by Andreas
Unicode is not an encoding, it is a character set.
UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32/... are different ways to encode this character set.

ANSI is a superset of iso-8859-1, all characters in the iso-8859-1 set are present in the ANSI set (but NOT vice-versa).
Just do not use characters with codes from 128 to 159 and ANSI and iso-8859-1 are identical.