RE: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread John Delacour 
At 8:40 pm +0200 1/10/03, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

 > > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

I think it should be "charset=UTF-8", in capital letters. I was looking into
the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias
for that.
It is the whole content value of the meta tag 
that needs to be quoted and case is not important.

There are five ways I can think of to represent 
the pound sign, the simplest being £

Although the doc type and charset declarations 
are required, all but the two-byte utf-8 
repesentation of the character will display 
correctly even if utf-8 is not specified.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/HTML32.dtd";>

  
  Pound


Smith £1,000
Jones £2,000
Allen £3,000
King £4,000
Haig £5,000

Re: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Stefan Persson 
Marco Cimarosti wrote:

I think it should be "charset=UTF-8", in capital letters. I was looking into
the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias
for that.
 

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945 tells:

  "literal"

  Quotation marks surround literal text. Unless stated otherwise,
  the text is case-insensitive.
Stefan

Re: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Pim Blokland 
Magda Danish (Unicode) schreef:

> > -Original Message-
> > Date/Time:Wed Oct  1 05:19:00 EDT 2003
> > Contact:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Report Type:  Other Question, Problem, or Feedback
> > (..)
> > the Pound sign displays as an error.
> > This happens when we use Netscape 7.02, and IE 6.0 (both very
> > modern browsers.
> >
> > Is there something obvious that I am missing?

Probably, yes. However, I have no idea what it could be.
This sounds like a HTML question rather than a Unicode question.
Anyway, if the Pound sign is coded as £ it really does not
matter if you identify the character set as ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or
anything else (any superset of ASCII7 that is); it displays
correctly.

> > Also which version of Unicode does HTML 4.0 support using
> > escape characters (eg. £)?

Unicode doesn't "do" HTML support; maybe this question was meant the
other way round? ("which version of HTML does Unicode support?")

Pim Blokland

RE: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Marco Cimarosti 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (through Magda Danish):
[...]
> > Our problem is the representation of the £ sign (British 
> > pound sign - U+00A3). When we type this character into our 
> > pages and then set the character encoding in our pages to 
> > Unicode (UTF-8) (either by setting it directly in the HTTP 
> > header, or setting it using the  > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 

I think it should be "charset=UTF-8", in capital letters. I was looking into
the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias
for that.

> > tag), when we view the pages we see the standard ASCII set of 
> > characters, but the Pound sign displays as an error.

The most obvious question is: are your pages *actually* in UTF-8? It is not
enough that you *declare* that they are UTF-8 if you didn't actually save
them as UTF-8 with your editor.

Could you put on line a small test page containing the pound symbol and post
the URL?

> > Also which version of Unicode does HTML 4.0 support using 
> > escape characters (eg. £)?

It doesn't matter which version of Unicode it is, because the pound symbol
is in from day zero.

Notice however that HTML character reference must end with a semicolon:

£

_ Marco