Re: [kde-linux] Encoding questions

Hi you are welcome. One last note. I've seen that yahoo converts what I've pasted into html and displays the chars ... I hope you're smart enough to read the mails in text.

<span
class="pronchars">\in-<span

class="unicode">&#712;</span>te-l&#601;-j&#601;nt\</span>
</dd>


Thanks! and

Welcome to the encodings hell!

I remember I tried to write my first program in C years ago. It was easy. It was using only one single encoding, but then internet came up and portability was a must, so Itried to write a simple interface for a vocabulary few years ago ... and was planning to finish in aabout 2 days. I spent 3 extra days reading about UTF and iconv and locales and best practices in conversions.
SO THANKS TO EVERYBODY who helped devoloping UNICODE and UTF and to unify them, but unfortunately it looks like we'll be fighting with conversions in future too as a lot of people use the old way.

O, Babylon ;-)

regards

regards





Thanks ;-(

Randy Kramer

PS: Also saw your next note, thanks for that as well!


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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:59:57 -0400
From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Encoding questions (Chusslove
Illich)
To: For people using KDE on Linux with related
questions/problems
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On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:56 am, Sylviane et Perry White
wrote:
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:29, Randy Kramer wrote:
One thing I noticed the other day, but forgot to
mention: ?Yes, there is
something on that page that seems to say the page
is encoded in iso8859-1:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

But elsewhere on the same page there are lines
that suggest that at least
some part of it might be encoded in utf-8:

google_afs_ie ? ? = 'utf8'; ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ?// select input encoding
scheme google_afs_oe ? ? = 'utf8'; ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ?// select output
encoding scheme
I have visited some web page (sorry I don't
remember which), where I could
select the coding either to read the
"outside" text proper to the site (on
top and left side), or to read the
"message".
Since whith both settings the undisplayed characters
were common french
accentuated letters I belive different encodings
coexisted but the designer
of the page failed to write in some indications about
that for the browser.

Perry,

Thanks--I guess like Emanoil said, "welcome to
encoding hell". ;-(

Randy Kramer


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