Re: Encoding and validation

Bill Braun a écrit ce qui suit, le 19/01/10 13:21 :
> Laurent Carcone wrote:
>> If you want to change the encoding of your document with Amaya, do 
>> 'Save As' with the same name and select UTF-8 in the charset box.
> Many thanks, Laurent and Martin. I discovered it can also be 
> accomplished by Tools > Change doctype.
> Best regards, Bill
There are two related problems to be considered separately.
1. You have to choose a "physical" encoding: the different characters 
have to be inscribed on the digital medium as a definite succession of 
bits, forming bytes, like utf-8 or iso-suchandsuch… This is usually 
obtained by an option under File/Save as… or another appropriate command
2. Most languages, protocols… ask you to declare the encoding so chosen. 
This is some doctype or charset="" declaration.

Needless to say that 1 and 2 have to be in accordance. Declaring utf-8 
while you actually saved your document as Windows-1252 or some other 
encoding of the middle ages is worse than declaring nothing. Most 
software with a command to insert a declaration about encoding do just 
this: declare, and only this. They do not convert the "physical" 
encoding into another. (One exception: in Bluefish the command 
Document/Encoding converts the encoding and inserts/corrects the 
declaration if the encoding changes.)
In conclusion, you have to mind 1 AND 2 accordingly.

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certain activities of the brain endowed with consciousness that it is 
convenient to consider as mental activities. (Peter W. Nathan, 1987, « 
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