[Doc-SIG] German Umlauts

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Christian Tismer wrote on 2003-07-07:

> What would be the most flexible default
> encoding for a multilingual website?
>
UTF-8, naturally.  For multilingual sites you want some encoding that
covers all Unicode at once; UTF-8 is the most portable of these (no
endianess issues, ascii-compatible).

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

Israel is moving to 7-digit cellphone numbers since the current
6-digit scheme, although prolonged for some time by supernetting,
"comes to the end of its useful life, once again due to address space
exhaustion" [RFC 1606 on IPv9 :-].  Why won't they just use DNS?