Re: Character encoding to HTML entities - Swedish oddity
Re: Character encoding to HTML entities - Swedish oddity
- Subject: Re: Character encoding to HTML entities - Swedish oddity
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:57:06 -0800
> Guy,
>
>> I have the following routines which encode accented characters into
>> their HTML entities. All works fine for example on an English system.
>
> That's certainly not the reply you are expecting, but are you sure
> that it would not be better for you to switch to UTF-8? You would
> write your accented characters as they are, the only change is that
> you have to declare "UTF-8" as the encoding.
>
> Here in France we do have big problems of accented characters like
> you have, and it has been a true delight when we were able to switch
> to UTF-8. I shall provide more details if you think you need some.
>
> Furthermore, switching to UTF-8 makes it natural to switch (later, if
> you need so) to XML and/or XHTML.
How do you switch between the various formats? <<class utf8>> is fairly
obvious but I thought the code is 4 characters so <<class utf16>> wouldn't
be possible?
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