Why does Joomla! 1.5 use utf-8 encoding?

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Last Updated (Thursday, 03 May 2007 09:39)Written by AdministratorThursday, 05 October 2006 00:00

Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again?

Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish?

With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) glyphs (charcter forms) of all basically all languages can be displayed with one single encoding setting. For example if you might wish to say WELCOME in as many language possible you could do the following: