Re: Inputting Unicode form Browser

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http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/unicode_web.html

"Stephen Toner (by way of Martin J. Duerst )" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have been trying to input characters from various languages into a form
> in my browser.  I want to then store this text as unicode in a database.  I
> have found that if a set the charset to a western language or if i leave it
> blank, that ordinary ascii characters are read in as ASCII and characters
> such as Japanese are converted to &#xxxxx; form.  Is this unicode?
> When I set the charset to "UTF-8" characters are chaged into combinations
> of strange boxes and symbols.  I thought that this was maybe the unicode
> for multibyte characters simply being displayed as their single
> bytes.  However some of these then aren't displayed correctly on output.
> I would appreciate any advice, as article that I have read seem to have
> contradictions in that some say that &#xxxx; is the unicde for that
> character and others say something else.  Also most articles seem to ignore
> the inputting aspect.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steohen