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Anonymous
2010-04-22T19:43:15+00:00

What is the difference between Western European (ISO) and Western European (Windows) and Unicode (UTF-8) and what is the best one to use?

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-23T13:25:07+00:00

    They're character encoders.

    A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers and/or text) through telecommunication networks or storage of text in computers.

    Click here for information.

    UTF-8 is the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode.

    More about UTF here

    Different encoding have different purposes. It’s best to leave it to Auto-select .

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-29T14:41:49+00:00

    I HAVE READ YOUR ABSWER AND AM SORRY TO SAY THAT LEAVING ENCODING ON AUTO DOES NOT WORK WHY DO SOME WEBPAGES LOAD UTF8 WHEN ALL THE PAGE IS NOT THERE SO I HAVE TO CHANGE TO WESTERN EURO TO GET PAGE TO LOAD PROPERLY. BUT AFTER YOU CHANGE TO ANOTHER PAGE IT GOES BACK TO UTF SO YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE ENCODING AGAIN AND REFRESH PAGE ITS TOO MUCH HASTLE. DO YOU GET MIXED CODING ON THE SAME PAGE OF WEBSITE?

    MORGIE

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