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[Paulo Ney de Souza]

And indeed TeXLive is full of HTML pages that have no declared encoding.

Paulo Ney

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 7:21 PM Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
wrote:

> On 2020-03-14 at 10:33:31 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>  > Paulo,
>  >
>  > Just one comment: there is nothing like the "correct
>  > encoding". Here in Japan we use daily at least two to three.
>  >
>  > So files that are in the encoding idea by those people mostly using
>  > the software are in the correct encoding, even if it is not utf8.
>
> The problem is not the encoding itself.  The problem is that many file
> formats don't allow to specify the encoding.  Positive examples are
> HTML and LaTeX where you (can|have to) declare the encoding.  HTML
> pages are broken almost everywhere if no encoding is specified.
>
> I agree with Paulo that UTF-8 is the preferred encoding, whenever
> possible.  The world is quite small nowadays.
>
> Is there any reason why Japanese prefer other encodings than UTF-8?
>
> AFAIK Vietnamese nowadays prefer UTF-8 over VISCII.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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