RE: OT Re: [WSG] UTF-8

[Richard Ishida]

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 Subject: OT Re: [WSG] UTF-8
 
  PPS. This is a good test to see if the WSG mail system can handle 
  UTF-8
 
 AFAIK å is Latin1 character (Scandinavian), so no need for UTF here.
 

Yes, but the bytes used in ISO 8859-1 (Latin1) or Windows code page and
those usef for UTF-8 are different.  In Latin1 encoding å is a single byte:
E5; whereas UTF-8 represents this as two bytes: C3 A5.  So the fact that you
are seeing it indicates that the system recognised the Unicode encoding :-)

RI


PS: You may find my Unicode converter a useful play tool for this kind of
thing.  It's a bit rough and ready, but it's useful.
http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/conversion.en.html


Richard Ishida
W3C

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Re: OT Re: [WSG] UTF-8

[Jan Brasna]

Yes, but the bytes used in ISO 8859-1 (Latin1) or Windows code page and
those usef for UTF-8 are different.
Sure, however the mail came in Latin1 (see the headers), so I just want 
to comment that it won't show the difference.

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