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Subject: Re: Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other	coding
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Achim Gratz writes:

> Jambunathan K writes:
>> Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other coding systems).
>>
>> For or against.  Please register your views.
>
> It is becoming more rare these days, but still possible that the
> document encoding cannot be UTF-8 for whatever reason.  So if it's not
> unduly complicating things, I'd suggest to avoid prescribing the UTF-8
> encoding for any and all exports.
>

Chinese law mandates use of GB-18030, not UTF-8.  The two are losslessly
and unambiguously convertable, but their bit encodings are different.
They are accustomed to dealing with UTF-8 from other parts of the world,
but might prefer to generate local pages in compliance with the law.

R Horn
rjhorn@alum.mit.edu