Normally these characters are used in other languages i.e French,
german etc

Does the use of these extended characters increases the site download
time ??

Should we use this or not....

Please suggest us !!

Thanks
www.stellar-info.fr

__/ [ cordial_camaraderie ] on Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:17 \__

If you vary your default charset, then the browser may have to use additional
services, which could lead to lag. The lag seems to be significantly long
for non-Latin languages such as Chinese or Arabic. For Latin languages, the
lag is not significant. Although it's a a no-no from the point-of-view of
Web standards, you could use Western (standard English) charset and embed
"é" or "ê" as images. Some Web sites handle the yet-loosely-supported Euro
symbol in this manner.

Hope it helps,

Roy

PS - I imagine it has a similar effect on search engines, including the
inclination to assign a page to a certain localised search. The language
attributes are probably more important though.

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
And what is wrong with using UTF-8, or iso-8859-15 and refer to the
characters as é and ê?


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__/ [ tonnie ] on Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:37 \__

Oh, you're right. I can actually see them at the bottom of my 'pocket
reference':

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Some symbols remain excluded, but here's some fancy stuff you can achieve
with what's at hand: *smile*

http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...thematics.html

Best wishes,

Roy

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Should I remove these characters with normal characters like e for "é"
or "ê"

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cordial_camaraderie wrote:
No.

Use é for é and ê for ê

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On 22 Mar 2006 04:39:58 -0800, "cordial_camaraderie"
<cordial_camaraderie@yahoo.com> wrote:

I think you should keep them if you can as it adds character to your
pages.

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cordial_camaraderie wrote:
Those characters *are* normal characters, and normal browsers and fonts
support them. There's no reason whatsoever to remove them. The only
important thing is to make sure the web server is correctly reporting
the character encoding--generally ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8, OR to represent
these characters in the source in &aaaaa; or ✏ format.

tonnie wrote:
Not necessary if they are stored using an encoding that supports them
and the web server reports that encoding correctly.

tonnie <t.prasing@chello.nl> wrote:

If you use UTF-8/ISO-8859-15 you can just type the character as is (enter
it via the keyboard), no need for &younameit;

I can't think up of any overhead if you use ISO-8859-15

With UTF-8 your file, IIRC, might become a bit larger.

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