Us ASCII will always be us ASCII in both encodings.
UTF-8 is what you want so convert any non-utf to utf and you'll be fine
Terry
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On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:44 PM, JC Ahangama wrote:
> I agree, sort of.
>
> The question is still why does US-ASCII letters show inside an HTML file
> declared as charset utf-8 and letters like ð,þ, á show as glyph not found. I
> did not *convert* US-ASCII. You will understand the problem only if you open
> the attached HTML files on 3 tabs and compare.
>
> I still believe that somebody forgot something somewhere about 2004.
>
> Thanks.
>
> JC
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Terry Riegel
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I think you are confused about utf-8
>>
>> declaring iso-8859-1 text to be utf-8 doesn't make it utf-8
>>
>> If you want it to be utf-8 you need to convert it to that.
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:53 PM, JC Ahangama
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe I know what is going on.
>>>
>>> The treatment of ISO-8859-1 set by Unicode is the culprit, at least in
>> the
>>> Windows machines. Please check the three versions of an HTML file for the
>>> same text given at the bottom of the page. Characters outside ASCII that
>> are
>>> still within ISO-8859-1 (codepoints 128 thru 255) are not included in the
>>> Unicode repertoire (as the last sample illustrates). The HTML pages do
>> not
>>> declare a font, and therefore, uses the Last Resort font of the system,
>>> which demonstrably *has* the letters that UTF-8 set thinks are missing.
>>>
>>> If you are working with people that want to use Indic, it is best that
>> they
>>> transliterate their languages to ISO-8859-1 and display them by means of
>>> orthographic fonts. Here are two web sites that illustrates it (The
>> language
>>> is Sinhala):
>>> http://www.ahangama.com/ -- My Wordpress blog has both English and
>> Sinhala
>>> http://www.lovatasinhala.com/ -- has only *one* graphic, that of the
>> lion.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> JC
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. No character set declaration. Shows the text correctly because
>> ISO-8859-1
>>> is the default charset.
>>> ==
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ISO-8859-1 but no character set declared
>>>
>>>
>>> ASCII lc:
>>>
>>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
>>>
>>> Some non-English letters:
>>>
>>> ðþææéúíóáðçøçµëûüïöäÐçôçñ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> 2. character declared as iso-8859-1. The text shows correctly
>>> ==
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ISO-8859-1 charset explicitly declared
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ASCII lc:
>>>
>>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
>>>
>>> Some non-English letters:
>>>
>>> ðþææéúíóáðçøçµëûüïöäÐçôçñ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> 3. characters set declared as UTF-8. No European characters!
>>> ==
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ISO-8859-1 charset explicitly declared
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ASCII lc:
>>>
>>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
>>>
>>> Some non-English letters:
>>>
>>> ðþææéúíóáðçøçµëûüïöäÐçôçñ
>>>
>>>
>>>
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