Re: Re: Query on character sets

Simon,

I'm not sure I understand you right. Can you point to an example
of your pages somewhere on the web? That would make sure we speak
about the same thing.

Regards,   Martin.

At 00/09/26 17:16 +0900, Simon  Leung wrote:
>It's much clear now.
>So if encode a page containing BIG5 character sets using UNICODE,
>then i should use UNICODE to decode the page and the page will be
>converted to contain UNICODE character sets ?
>
>Thanks,
>Simon
>
>On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 at 09:43:46 PM, "Martin J. Duerst" wrote:
>
> > Hello Simon,
> >
> > I think you have to distinguish between subsets respective to the
> > character repertoire and subsets respective to the character encoding.
> >
> > As an example, the repertoire (set of characters) that can be represented
> > by Big5 is a subset of the repertoire of UTF-8. You can therefore convert
> > a file from Big5 to UTF-8 without loosing any characters.
> >
> > On the other hand, the Big5 encoding is completely different from the
> > UTF-8 encoding, and if you try to decode a Big5 file as UTF-8, you
> > may see garbage, but you actually should get an error message.
> >
> > Hope this helps.    Regards,   Martin.
> >
> > At 00/09/25 14:00 +0000, Misha Wolf wrote:
> > >Please respond to the questions below, copying both the list and
> > >(simonleung@hyperoffice.com).
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Misha
> > >
> > >[This mail was written using voice recognition software]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dear sir,
> > > >
> > > > I've got a question regarding the page
> > > > 'http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc10/languages.html'.
> > > >
> > > > Please advise if the following statement are right or not.
> > > >
> > > > 1. Every page coded in ASCII can be viewed by the browers using 
> different
> > > > encoding scheme since ASCII is the subset of all the character set.
> > > >
> > > > 2. So, does it mean that if page encoded using encoding scheme 'A' can
> > > be viewed
> > > > properly by the browers using encoding scheme 'B'if 'A' is a subset of
> > > 'B' ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However, when i use UTF-8 to decode the page which use the charset
> > > 'BIG5', i can
> > > > only observe the garbage.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > > Simon
> > >
> > >
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