Questions tagged [content-encoding]
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Why would I choose UTF-8 over ISO 8859-1 as the content encoding for my site?
Assume that the site is still in it's design phases so there's no initial work to pick one over the other from the start.
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What encoding do most users prefer to have?
Is there any site, chart, or raw data that shows how much of user have used Unicode (UTF-8) or Western (ISO-8859-1) or Chinese and so.
Or provide rough data of what is used in major number of sites. I want a rough data of major browser setting.
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Santosh Kumar
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Encoding fails whatever I try
I am trying to set my site's encoding to UTF-8 but I fail. Environment: Ubuntu Desktop 13.04, Apache 2.2, PHP+FPM.
Added a .htacces:
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Meta:
file -bi * output:
inode/directory; charset=binary
inode/directory;…
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CMS text encoding and common browser decoding; recent change?
I'm managing a CMS-based website. The primary language of the CMS is English. Our content is mostly in English, but user postings are sometimes in other languages. The supporting mySQL database of my site is set to UTF-8 encoding.
Until recently,…
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