Martinus
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Hi guys and gals
I'm putting to work the good suggestions I received in this thread about encoding URLs.
I have the possibility of URLencoding the links using these two encoding formats:
- UTF-8
- ISO-8859-1
Which one should I use and more important, what's the difference?
Sorry if this is a silly question but I'd rather be sure of what I'm doing.
Many thanks
Martin
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big greg
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| Those are encoding schemes for a page, not for encoding URLs within your page.
ISO-8859-1 allows encoding of the ISO "latin-1" character set »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-1 This encoding is deprecated but is found on lots of pages and isn't going anywhere soon.
UTF-8 is a more recent encoding that allows unicode to be intermixed with regular ASCII on the same page »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8 This encoding is popular for newer web pages and is often found encoding foreign language pages.
What you want is URL encoding, also sometimes called "percent encoding" which allows special/goofy characters to be inside your URLs »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url_encoding
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Martinus
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