Character encoding

November 6 2008, 7:25pm

ISO 8859-1 has become something of a de facto standard for Western sites, and may be of interest if you prefer spellings like "naïve" or "rôle" or "smörgåsbord." But if you use certain literal characters, like typographically correct quotation marks, dashes, ellipses, and so on, you'll run into trouble.