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Re: [Groff] Tascii lost


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] Tascii lost
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:25:43 GMT

> ***> What is the "official" encoding HTML servers and browsers are
> supposed to be expecting?  ASCII?  Latin1?  UTF8?  Or what?

ASCII (i.e., chars in the range 0x20-0x7F) is always there.  Latin-1
is the default 8bit encoding for the western world, but this is an
artificial limitation in today's global communication.  UTF-8 is the
future, and browsers are becoming sophisticated enough to handle it
gracefully.  For example, XML uses UTF-8 by default.

In any case, you should always try to design your tmac.www to be
independent from the encoding (for example -- if you ever need it --
use macros like `\(:u' to get an `u umlaut' glyph instead of the
Latin-1 code position 252.  grohtml will this eventually translate to
the SGML entity ü which is valid in any encoding).


    Werner


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