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

2003-10-03 Thread Marco Cimarosti
> This (Peter's) answer is, in my understanding, the nearest to the > truth. He made the same assumption I did: you declared that your file was UTF-8 but actually it wasn't. :-) > Here is the problem: > > How do I make my keyboard which only produces 8-bit [...] The keyboard has nothing to do

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 co

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

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Kirk
-Original Message- Date/Time:Wed Oct 1 05:19:00 EDT 2003 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback Hi, I'm a web developer at Oxford University in the UK, and we are considering encoding all our websites in Unicode to allow support of non-we

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.

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

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 th

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

2003-10-01 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 10:50 AM 10/1/03 -0700, Magda Danish \(Unicode\) wrote: 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

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

2003-10-01 Thread Magda Danish \(Unicode\)
Jim, I am forwarding your email to the Unicode list http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html for possible answers from the list subscribers. Regards, Magda Danish Administrative Director The Unicode Consortium 650-693-3921 > -Original Message- > Date/Time:Wed Oct 1 05:19