<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7a2a6852-7490-4002-a088-3a48a93b1528/2BE175A5-42F7-4B78-B61E-4E086042D33C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/12/03/reasons-for-using-utf-8/" href="http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/12/03/reasons-for-using-utf-8/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.soledadpenades.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/12/03/reasons-for-using-utf-8/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to Reasons for using UTF-8" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/12/03/reasons-for-using-utf-8/">Reasons for using UTF-8</A> <SPAN class="category">(<A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in php" href="http://www.soledadpenades.com/category/php/">php</A>, <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in web authoring" href="http://www.soledadpenades.com/category/web-authoring/">web authoring</A>)</SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/12/03/reasons-for-using-utf-8/"><P>The main problem is the development platform, which happens to be Windows most of the times - and its default encoding, which seems to be ISO-8859. Since the majority of web developers are in countries which have more than enough with ISO-8859 (Europe, North America, etc…), and that majority also tend to use Windows, their servers are set to use ISO-8859, the databases are created using ISO-8859, and the code and templates and by extension the pages come out automatically with ISO-8859 (although I have also noticed that Eclipse sets the default encoding to CP-1252, in every platform - which is something that keeps puzzling me!).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2BE175A5-42F7-4B78-B61E-4E086042D33C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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