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Assume that the site is still in it's design phases so there's no initial work to pick one over the other from the start.

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With UTF-8 you have increased flexibility over ISO 8859-1. The former can encode any character included in Unicode while the latter is limited to Western European languages.

ISO 8859-1 ("Latin1") doesn't include, for example, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, etc.

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  • Is the LS (line separator) character also supported in HTML or do I still have to use the classic \r\n kludge?
    – Evan Plaice
    Jul 13, 2010 at 4:59
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    @Evan: normally you just use \n.
    – DisgruntledGoat
    Jul 13, 2010 at 12:01
  • @DisgruntledGoat I thought \n was specific to *nix platforms whereas \r is specific to Windows. Don't you need a combination of the two to make the code platform independent?
    – Evan Plaice
    Jul 13, 2010 at 12:24
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    Decent Windows text editors can use \n or \r\n.
    – mcrumley
    Jul 13, 2010 at 17:22
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    @Evan: \n is Linux/Unix, \r is Mac, \r\n is Windows. But you can use any of those for any platform's server as far as I know. I've never had any problems on Windows using just \n.
    – DisgruntledGoat
    Jul 14, 2010 at 8:57

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