Comments on: Which is better UTF-8 or ISO-? http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/03/which-is-better-utf-8-or-iso/ Email, Delivery, Spam and more Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Stijn http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/03/which-is-better-utf-8-or-iso/comment-page-1/#comment-10218 Stijn Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:16:45 +0000 http://blog.wordtothewise.com/?p=1326#comment-10218 Yes that article from Joel is very good indeed. Go for Unicode always is what I say. The problems are basically the same for all encodings. Everything is fine as long as everyone uses the same encoding, no matter what it is. The problem with all encodings that are not Unicode is that for a lot of people it is impossible to use the same encoding. Japanese people can't use ISO-8859-1 and French people can't use ASCII for example. Unicode is the only one encoding that everyone can use. Even Klingons! So don't hesitate but go for it! If you are developing in Java, I wrote an article on my blog to help you make the transition: http://stijndewitt.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/unicode-utf-8-in-eclipse-java/ Yes that article from Joel is very good indeed.

Go for Unicode always is what I say. The problems are basically the same for all encodings. Everything is fine as long as everyone uses the same encoding, no matter what it is.

The problem with all encodings that are not Unicode is that for a lot of people it is impossible to use the same encoding. Japanese people can’t use ISO-8859-1 and French people can’t use ASCII for example. Unicode is the only one encoding that everyone can use. Even Klingons! So don’t hesitate but go for it!

If you are developing in Java, I wrote an article on my blog to help you make the transition:
http://stijndewitt.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/unicode-utf-8-in-eclipse-java/

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]]> By: David Harris http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/03/which-is-better-utf-8-or-iso/comment-page-1/#comment-3975 David Harris Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:44:43 +0000 http://blog.wordtothewise.com/?p=1326#comment-3975 Helpful details. Thanks, Laura. For those who want more background on character sets, I've found that this article, <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html" rel="nofollow">The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)</a>, is a good primer. Helpful details. Thanks, Laura.

For those who want more background on character sets, I’ve found that this article, The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!), is a good primer.

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