Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:54:57 +0100, /Richmond/:
Stanimir Stamenkov writes:
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:00:15 +0100, /Richmond/:
Richmond writes:
If someone posts the characters Left Double Quotation Mark “ or Right
Double Quotation Mark ” without any mime headers to indicate the encoding,
Seamonkey seems to manage to display them anyway, whereas Gnus displays
\223 \224. How is Seamonkey managing to find out what these codes mean? and
how can I find out what character encoding it has chosen to use?
Can Seamonkey change encodings in the middle of an article? For example if
I use Greek Drachma Sign 𐅻 will that appear?
I should say that it doesn't seem to be using the default of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 because 224 represents à on
that system.
I guess it is because browsers generally default to Windows-1252 (see the
table in the last point 8):
https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/syntax.html#determining-the-character-encoding
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 char 224 is à
too.
Seems like you've found the answer (in another reply to this thread) –
the 224 number is octal, which corresponds to HEX 94... Who uses/needs
octal nowadays – gosh, it is confusing to programmers, even.
--
Stanimir
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