Re: accented characters, etc.

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Delacour wrote:

> No such thing is needed; the big step towards internationalization is
> already taken and it is Unicode <http:www.unicode.org/>.  All you need
> to do is declare UTF-8 as your character set and use unicode entities
> such as &x03EE;

To be more precice, you don't need to declare UTF-8 as your character
encoding (and probably shouldn't), to use these entities.  No matter what
your character encoding is, &#xxxx; will refer to the Unicode character
number xxxx. 

(Aside: Note the subtle difference between character encoding and
character set.)

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