Netscape discontinued accepting RSS channels for its My Netscape portal in April 2001 and removed the document, http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/mnn20/faq.html#encodings. This is a copy of the document made from Google's cache of the original, in May 2001.

What Encodings Are Supported in RSS 0.91?
RSS 0.91 supports a full range of encodings, as shown in Table 2, below. Specifying an encoding in your RSS file is optional, and the default encoding is UTF-8 (Unicode).

For information about how to specify an encoding in an RSS 0.91 file, see Languages and Encodings Supported in RSS 0.91, in the Getting Started document.

Table 2.  Character encodings supported by RSS 0.91. (Entries in either column supported.)
 
IANA standard name MIME preferred name (if different from IANA)
ANSI_X3.4-1968 US-ASCII
ISO_8859-1:1987 ISO-8859-1
ISO_8859-2:1987 ISO-8859-2
ISO_8859-5:1988 ISO-8859-5
ISO_8859-7:1987 ISO-8859-7
ISO_8859-9:1989 ISO-8859-9
Shift_JIS  
Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese EUC-JP
GB2312  
EUC-KR  
Big5  
windows-1250  
windows-1251  
UTF-8  
x-mac-roman  

Some characters supported by the x-mac-roman encoding are not included in the ISO-8859-1 character set and are not supported by My Netscape. Mac Roman characters not supported by My Netscape are listed in Table 3, below.

Table 3.  Mac Roman characters not supported by My Netscape.
 
  _0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
A_           ¥         ª     ­    
B_ °   ² ³     · ¸ ¹ º     ½    
C_       Ã Ä Å Æ     É         Î Ï
D_ Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ   ×   Ù Ú   Ü Ý Þ ß
E_ à   â ä ä                      
F_ ð         õ ö ÷   ù ú û   ý þ ÿ

Example: character à is codepoint xE0 in x-mac-roman.

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