Archive for October, 2008

ISO-8859 Multilingual unicode characters

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

ISO 8859 is a full series of 10 multilingual character sets for writing in alphabetic language, including seperate languages as Latin1 (West European), Greek, Arabic or Hebrew. Unfortunately the basic alphabet for the Arabic language only and not containing the four extra letters for Persian.
Here the best page i’ve found which explains it. It also displays every ISO letters AND the hole charset codes are downloadable.

http://www.unicodecharacter.com/charsets/iso8859.html

By the way, this page converts encodings

And of course, the Wikipedia Unicode page.

Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Simple question, isn’t it? But if I say: give me the three steps to ensure that your (x)html is for sure in utf-8, would you give them to me?

Let’s just ask the W3C Internationalization for the answer!
Another usefull link just to make sure that every character sets & encodings in web pages are under control…