December 16, 2002

Character Encoding

The Web Standards Project is starting a new series of articles where they ask questions of the experts at the World Wide Web Consortium. The first question is:

There are several ways of specifying the character encoding for a particular document. Which of the following methods (or combination thereof) does the W3C recommend, and why?

The answer straightens out the confusion surrounding character encoding (which encompasses HTML meta tags, server settings, and the fun of XML/XHTML).

I'm looking forward to more "Ask the W3C" articles...