mork Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Since few days, I’m struggling with the understanding of encodings. I often see that XML uses UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 as their encoding. But when should I use which of the two encodings? Is there a easy and simple explanation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 ISO 8859-1 (aka Latin1) is for Western alphabets - eg, not Asian. UTF-8 does Western, Asian, and others, supporting practically everything. I just always use UTF-8: anything in Latin1 can be represented in UTF-8, but the reverse is not true. No crystal balls needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mork Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Same. I almost always use UTF-8, although there are some exceptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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