__/ [ cordial_camaraderie ] on Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:17 \__
> Normally these characters are used in other languages i.e French,
> german etc
>
> Does the use of these extended characters increases the site download
> time ??
>
> Should we use this or not....
>
> Please suggest us !!
>
> Thanks
> www.stellar-info.fr
If you vary your default charset, then the browser may have to use additional
services, which could lead to lag. The lag seems to be significantly long
for non-Latin languages such as Chinese or Arabic. For Latin languages, the
lag is not significant. Although it's a a no-no from the point-of-view of
Web standards, you could use Western (standard English) charset and embed
"é" or "ê" as images. Some Web sites handle the yet-loosely-supported Euro
symbol in this manner.
Hope it helps,
Roy
PS - I imagine it has a similar effect on search engines, including the
inclination to assign a page to a certain localised search. The language
attributes are probably more important though.
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