http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/13/utf8.php     I recently wrote of some experiments to improved Feed2JS (see the updates fed to the site, bottom of the main page). Specifically, based on the request from a user in Germany, I attempted to change the output to encode content...     en-us     Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:32:47 -0700     Movable Type v2.661     60 I recently wrote of some experiments to improved Feed2JS (see the updates fed to the site, bottom of the main page). Specifically, based on the request from a user in Germany, I attempted to change the output to encode content... http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/13/utf8.php       Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:27:27 -0700 <p>If you have english text as UTF-8 and display it on a page with ISO-8859-1 or US ASCII, it works fine because UTF-8 is backwards compatible with US ASCII (which in turn is the base for ISO-8859-1).</p> <p>Unfortunately, finnish, swedish, french, german and many other european languages that use ISO-8859-? have characters that are not compatible with UTF-8.</p> <p>You have to:</p> <p>a) Explicitly ask your users to use UTF-8 as the default encoding for their web pages. As feed2js is targetted to less tech-savvy people, this is not a good idea.</p> <p>b) Implement an option into your feed2js script to encode the content in UTF-8 or convert the UTF-8 output to some target encoding, for example ISO-8859-1. Obviously you can't easily convert UTF-8 to all encoding formats in existence so you will have to limit your target audience (or sort the problem with a really kick ass UTF-8 to ??? conversion library).<br /> </p> http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2005/01/13/utf8.php#2008 Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:05:27 -0700