Topic: DTD and character encoding

I've read through the ozone faq's and w3c, but can't figure out:

1) When should I use the transitional doctype instead of strict? Or should I always use strict?

2) What's the difference between "iso-8859-1" and "utf-8" character encoding? I'm asking because I don't know which one is the correct one to use.

Use strict unless you need to use anything that transitional provides...

If you need to use anything in Transitional, ask yourself "do I really need to use this" ? It's designed to make it easier for people to "transition" to better markup whilst not sacrificing all of the elements they currently use in their pages.

www.webstandards.org is a good place to find this kind of info.

As for the encoding, use iso-8859-1 as I believe it's more widely supported than utf-8. I'm not up to speed on all of the differences, but I believe utf-8 supports damn near everything, whilst iso-8859-1 is a fairly common/latin character set, which is why it's more likely to be supported. I could be completely wrong thought. I think Suho's down with all this character encoding jazz. I'm sure he'll pop by and slap me round if I'm leading you astray .