Wednesday 27 February 2013

Unicode

The most important thing in the website is that it should be able to display any language. For writing character and text there is an universal character encoding standard. It defines a consistent way of encoding multilingual text. Unicode characters are represented in one of three encoding forms: a 32-bit form (UTF-32), a 16-bit form (UTF-16), and an 8-bit form (UTF-8). UTF-8 has been designed for ease of use with existing ASCII-based systems and it is usually the default encoding that you should be using on any webpage. Setting up the right encoding will ensure that your websites's contents will be correctly displayed. Most Content Management System (CMS) already handle all content as UTF-8 encoded text. 

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