BLaZuRE Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Right now, my webpages have a meta tag set to UTF-8 encoding. Should I save them with or without the BOM? Is there any benefit or disadvantage either way? Also, I have the option to encode or to convert to UTF-8. Which should I do? Also, would you suggest anything besides UTF-8 for webpages? A college from Japan is probably going to see the webpage, though the majority will be from the US. I haven't researched enough to determine if browsers designed for that region (or translated) will conflict with certain charsets. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 If you are designing an English site that will contain Japanese characters, you want to use UTF-8. If you are designing a complete Japanese site, you want to use Shift_JIS. They will both work, but Shift_JIS is compatible with more devices in Japan, and therefore will work better. UTF-8 encoding shows up strangly at times on portable devices (cell phones etc), and can cause troubles if linking other Japanese stuff with the site. So you should be fine with UTF-8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebadbad Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 The Unicode Consortium doesn't recommend the use of the BOM for UTF-8. And my experience is that you very easily run into problems if you include the BOM, so it's an easy choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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