* Arne Heizmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can tell you the reasons for using koi8-r, euc-jp etc instead of utf-8 > > for the httpd docs. The resulting documents are significant smaller. > > ru: 15169 => 20713 > ru+gzip: 5454 => 6160 > > ja: 14063 => 16595 > ja+gzip: 4833 => 5237
Uhm, what do these numbers refer to? > Especially considering that you are limiting yourself to a very small > set of characters. As a result, you have to put the ugly hacky "ru" and > "ja" on the pages rather than the proper "РуÑÑкий" and "日本語" > which > users are more likely to recognise. Nope, the iso-tokens are chosen as linktext on purpose. The native language names are in the title (or should be there at least, depends on the translator, however). [note that my mail client here can't recognize utf-8 properly, I'm leaving it as is ...] > Yes, I know you can use numerical > entities in HTML to achieve this nonetheless, but the more you use > those, the less of a "benefit" your legacy encoding becomes. As a matter of fact, numeric character references are rare within the httpd docs. nd --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
