Confusion over encodings, utf-8, etc.

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:19:18PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> 
> I've entered the world of unicode with my mac, and I'd like to make things
> consistent across my machines.
> 
> I naïvely thought utf-8 would solve everything.  But I find a lot of web pages
> and people's names only show correctly in iso-8859-1.  I thought utf-8 covered
> them all?

Do you actually have Unicode fonts installed? A good base are ms-ttf
(Arial) or Gentium.

Joerg