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Updated article: Declaring character encodings in CSS

This update brings the article in line with recent developments in CSS, and reorganizes the material so that readers can find information more quickly. This led to the article being almost completely rewritten.

The article addresses the question: How do I declare the character encoding of a CSS style sheet?

German, Greek, Spanish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese translators are asked to update their translation of this article within the next month, otherwise the translations will be removed per the translation policy, since the changes are substantive.

New translations into Hungarian

These articles were translated into Hungarian thanks to Petra Csobanka.

New translations into Russian and Ukrainian

Ukrainian:

Вибір і застосування кодування (Choosing & applying a character encoding)

Призначення кодування символів в HTML (Declaring character encodings in HTML)

Призначення кодування символів в CSS (Declaring character encodings in CSS)

Кодування символів: Основні поняття (Character encodings: Essential concepts)

Russian:

Выбор и применение кодирования (Choosing & applying a character encoding)

Назначение кодировки символов в HTML (Declaring character encodings in HTML)

Назначение кодировки символов в CSS (Declaring character encodings in CSS)

Кодирование символов: Основные понятия (Character encodings: Essential concepts)

These articles were translated thanks to Alexandr Shlapak.

Updated article: Declaring character encodings in CSS

This article was rewritten to better address all methods of declaring encoding, including HTTP-header and charset link declarations. This and other changes are described below. View the article.

German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Thai and Vietnamese translators should consider updating it.

Description of changes:

  • most of the text was rewritten
  • the title and the question were changed
  • the latest template was applied
  • substantial changes were made to the Further Reading section

Translators should retranslate the whole article.

For review: 7 new and 3 updated articles about character encoding

Comments are being sought on the following new articles prior to final publication:

  1. Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
  2. Essential definitions related to character encodings
  3. Choosing & applying a character encoding
  4. Character encoding declarations in HTML
  5. The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML
  6. Normalization in HTML and CSS
  7. Characters or markup?

These articles have been derived from the former tutorial, which has already undergone a review. Since then, HTML5 has been brought to the fore in the articles and various small changes have been added, including some short summary information.

The three updated articles are the result of merging the tutorial material with existing articles. They are:

The character encoding section of the techniques page relating to HTML and CSS authoring has also been overhauled, to include the new material.

Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We hope to publish a final version in one to two weeks.

New translation: Angabe der Zeichencodierung in CSS

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into German (language negotiated).

Categories: Translation needed

New translation: การประกาศค่าการ encode ตัวอักษรใน CSS

Thanks to ลาวัณย์ นันทโววาทย์ (Lawan Nuntavovat) the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Thai (language negotiated).

Categories: Translation needed

הצהרות קידוד תווי CSS

Thanks to the Hebrew Translation team,‏ WTB Language, the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Hebrew (language negotiated).

Categories: Translation needed

Δηλώσεις για την κωδικοποίηση χαρακτήρων κατά CSS

Thanks to the Greek translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Greek (language negotiated). This is our first Greek translation.

Categories: Translation needed

Các khai báo mã hóa ký tự CSS

Thanks to the Vietnamese translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Vietnamese(language negotiated). This is our first Vietnamese translation.

Categories: Translation needed

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