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		olavk on Feb 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unicode over 60 percent of the web http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html considers ISO-8859-n character encodings: "Commonly used character encodings on the Web include ISO-8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1"; usable for most Western European languages), ISO-8859-5 ..."

guard-of-terra on Feb 10, 2012 | [–]

ISO-8859-5 has NEVER been a common encoding on the Web.

KOI8-R was, then Windows-1251. Now it's often UTF-8.

derleth on Feb 11, 2012 | [–]

But Latin-1 is not a Unicode encoding.

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