Hi,
first of all thank you for CKEditor. It's really great.
Anyway, I would like to understand this case:
The question: "How to set CKEditor to work with languages that use non-latin characters" is often discussed in this forum and also in many related projects like this:
http://drupal.org/node/692558
I know how to change the configuration to make CKEditor working with European languages. I would like to ask the CKEditor team, why the default setting is still "convert all non-latin characters to html entities". Most languages of the world use characters outsite basic Latin. I hope that majority of web developers of the world already use UTF-8, am I right? Is there any reason to not allow to use these characters in CKEditor by default?
Thu, 04/14/2011 - 07:29
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Re: Question on default settings of processing HTML entities
The reason is simple: because what you hope is not exactly the case in the real world. There are plenty of websites and Web applications that have still not adapted UTF-8 as their default encoding and are using various ISO or exotic encodings.
And since this is the case, it is more preferable to distribute CKEditor with a default setting that works for everyone than support just some users and force others to change settings in order to be able to display non-Latin characters.
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Re: Question on default settings of processing HTML entities