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Charset utf-8 vs. iso-8859-1

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Feb 28.2012

I am trying to implement a website in Greek. It seems that I need to specify utf-8 as the charset in order to render the Greek Alphabet.

However if I want to include the link to the Greek language version of the site, with the text “Ελληνικα” in the top-right corner of each page in other languages. I will also need to change the charset to UTF-8 on all the other pages of the website aswell (English, Spanish, French, & Portuguese).

So my question is, if I change the Charset on these pages from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8, will it mess with any of the text on thsoe pages?

If so then I will not risk it and just write the link in English i.e. “Greek”.

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@CharlesFeb 28.2012 — iso-8859-1 is a subset of utf-8 so you will be good to go.
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@Jeff_MottFeb 28.2012 — iso-8859-1 is a subset of utf-8 so you will be good to go.[/QUOTE]

Well... almost. The ASCII part, yes. But the 8859 chars from 128 to 255 are not valid UTF-8 characters.

TonyLoco23, to make those other pages UTF-8, there are two things you need to do. First, open your pages in Notepad++ (or some other capable editor), and select Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM, and save. And second, add the meta charset, which tells the browser how this page has been encoded.
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