Best doctype and encoding?

What is the best doctype and encoding to use for web pages these days?

I do most of my sites in ISO-8859-1 since most have to have a Spanish section and the accents work easier.
Recently had to change one over to UTF-8 for a russian section and that's when I discovered something new...
my russian pages would not display once uploaded and a I spent a couple of days trying to figure out why...
turns out you have to make sure (at least with my server) that the server is using the same encoding as you are
my server - being in Spain - used ISO as default - so I had to ask them to switch it over to UTF-8 and then my page worked fine.
just watch out for that if you start switching your page encodings.
of course this also means that I had some issues with other pages , since the server will only use one encoding for all the pages on a site
worth bearing in mind - particularly if you do a lot of multilingual stuff as I do...

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To answer your questions:
>>First question is regarding the potential alternatives and which is the best approach between these options:
>>1) A single task that reads required analog and counter information into the same buffer, seems easy to >>align the data using this approach.
>>2) A task to read analog data and a second task to read counter information, complicated by the need to >>reliably align the informatio from seperate buffers
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>>Next question is simple: can the PCI-6220 read 2 seperate encoders?
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Hi
I would like to say that not getting a reply in the forum was
a little disappointing. In no way do I blame forum members, that's
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unanswered. Looking at how many others there are, maybe not.
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Surrey Web
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