On 1 Sep 2010, at 20:03, Aparajita Fishman wrote:
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
Ah. Well that clears up another misunderstanding. I thought that UTF-8 was basically equivalent to the Unicode code point at the byte level but I see that's only the case for the first 7f characters.
Now I understand the line in the Active4D manual which says "Query string parameters are automatically . . converted from UTF-8 to Unicode". I never understood that paragraph because I thought that UTF-8 effectively 'was' Unicode but I now see that it isn't.
More things are becoming clear. I got diverted by the Wikipedia article on Unicode which states that the first 256 code points are identical to ISO-8859-1. I took this to mean that ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 were basically interchangeable for the first byte, but now that I see UTF-8 is not unicode it explains a lot. Also explains why the A4D manual stresses the importance of informing the browser of the encoding (and that the embedded encoding is what the meta tag says it is :) ).
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