[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] websites
- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:54:15 -0800
- In-reply-to: <E1AvFEn-000GbM-Ta@mx1.uniserve.ca>
- References: <E1AvFEn-000GbM-Ta@mx1.uniserve.ca>
On Feb 23, 2004, at 4:28 AM, steve wrote:
> I am thinking of making my website multilingual and want to know if
> xml and uft8 is the best way to tackle this problem. There seems to
> be a lot of Japanese websites that use shift jis, wouldn't it be
> better to use utf8? Would all browsers support a site built on XML
> and UTF8?
Shift-JIS has been around for a long time and works just fine for
Japanese-only and Japanese-English websites. UTF-8 is quite well
supported by modern browsers. Browsers have generally poor support for
arbitrary XML, but there's no reason you shouldn't use XHTML, that's
well-supported. -Tim
smime.p7s
|
