"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@p...> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.61.0502021006440.5995@p......
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, EU citizen wrote:
>
> > > > Do web pages have to be created in unicode in order to use UTF-8
> > encoding?
>
> [...]
>
> > I wish people would give simple answers to simple questions.
>
> I don't think you've understood the problem.  If the questioner was in
> a position to understand the "simple answer" which you say you want, I
> can't imagine how they would have asked the question in that form in
> the first place.
>
> > This is not a silly question;
>
> The original questioner should not feel offended or dispirited by what
> I'm going to say: but, in the form in which is was asked, the question
> is incoherent.

I think there's a lot of miscommunication going on, I don't entirely
understand what your posting.

> > See
> > http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp on XML Encoding.
>
> How very strange.  This claims to be XHTML, but, as far as I can see,
> it has no character encoding specified on its HTTP Content-type header
> *nor* on its <?xml...> thingy (indeed it doesn't have a <?xml...>
> thingy).
>

<snip>

You makee a number of valid criticisms about the w3schools article, but they
turned up near the top of my Google search for information on this subject.
It just shows how difficult it is to get reliable information.

> > Windows 95/98 Notepad cannot save files in Unicode format.
>
> Then it's unfit for composing the kind of document that we are
> discussing here.  No matter - there are plenty of competent editors
> which can work on that platform.

My original question asked for suggestions about suitable applications, and
yet no one has named one.