Re: Russian/Cyrillic - no woes, happy now!

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Mari Voipio wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Caveat: This is advisable if you use Scite only with UTF-8 encoded files. If
> you use SciTe for files with other encoding, it is not a good idea. Why, you
> ask?
> Because in the Encoding menu under File there's no way of switching a tab
> back to for example Windows Iso-Latin1 or whatever else your files are.
>
> I know SciTe menus are adjustable so if somebody knows of a way to adding
> 'switch tab to code.page 0' or 'windows default encoding' or something
> similar to the Encoding menu, that'd be very much appreciated. Until then, I
> probably have to give up using SciTe as my html editor or some other people
> will be veerryyy annoyed...

Unless web pages are in ASCII, I never even dare to use anything but UTF-8.

In the long run you will probably want to or have to switch ... the
sooner you do that the better.
I don't know what you use your web pages for, but if you allow user
input (for example asking visitors for name), you discriminate users
for not being able to enter their name properly.

Lots of people that use ISO Latin 1 don't bother to specify encoding
since the web pages seem to "just work". If you try to open those
files (or see the web page) on some machine where Latin 2 in the
default, you'll run into problems anyway.

Mojca
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