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02-22-2010, 06:11 AM

Hi,

I've always used:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

on my web pages. I have done so for years and never questioned it. However, now the text editor I use has updated itself it complains about the encoding if I use the above meta tag. I have noticed now a lot of people use utf-8 instead and if I use this my text editor no longer generates a warning.

Is there any one I should be using? I'm guessing UTF 8 is a much more up-to-date character set. Should I be using that instead? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using one or the other?

02-22-2010, 06:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
asdfghjkl Status: Guest Posts: n/a	advantages/disadvantages Hi, I've always used: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> on my web pages. I have done so for years and never questioned it. However, now the text editor I use has updated itself it complains about the encoding if I use the above meta tag. I have noticed now a lot of people use utf-8 instead and if I use this my text editor no longer generates a warning. Is there any one I should be using? I'm guessing UTF 8 is a much more up-to-date character set. Should I be using that instead? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using one or the other?