Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0

It is important to consider character encoding matters when producing internationalization content, and further to understand how to choose and declare encodings, how and when to use character escapes, etc. This document is one of a series of documents providing HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML using XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01, supported by CSS1, CSS2 and some aspects of CSS3. It focuses specifically on advice about character sets, encodings, and other character-specific matters. It is produced by the Guidelines, Education & Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the W3C Internationalization Working Group (I18N WG). The GEO Task Force encourages feedback about the content of this document as well as participation in the development of the techniques by people who have experience creating Web content that conforms to internationalization needs.