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I have noticed that I have been using this
in my metatags:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

However looking at other peopls websites, I usually this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

This site uses:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

What are the reasons for choosing one or the other ?

Is one of them somehow "better" ?

Thanks for any insights on this :)
Apr 9 '09 #1
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Dormilich
8,658 Expert Mod 8TB
using UTF-8 as charset depends on the Unicode support the system has.

the ISO charsets are quite well implemented for a long time now (because ISO range is much smaller than the Unicode range) so that's a rather safe setting, whereas Unicode is able to display nearly all needed characters natively.

it also depends on the used software (server, DB, …) if you can successfully use Unicode.
Apr 9 '09 #2

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