Re: corporate serial killers

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Caballero  Thu, 22
Mar 2007 17:29:13 -0600 (MDT)

Actually, HTML supports any number of character sets, or, more
properly, character encodings. A character encoding is simply a
convention that associates a certain sequence of bytes with a
certain sequence of characters -- in short, a numbered list of
characters. But really there is nothing simple about it because,
although you can specify a particular character encoding in an HTML
document, the servers that handle your document may not honor your
spec and, even if they do, the user's browser software may not
support it. The great thing about standards, etc. etc.

What I believe Robert was saying in shorthand was that, in a Windows
world, the charset spec most commonly specified in HTML documents,
and the default charset most commonly supplied by browsers if none
is specified, is ISO-8859-1 a/k/a Latin-1 a/k/a ANSI. Hence the
usefulness of ANSIfied XyWrite in composing HTML docs.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx