Re: Fwd: Illustrate and explain "character encoding" from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2004-05-26 (public-i18n-geo@w3.org from May 2004)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:40:55 +0200
To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Cc: public-i18n-geo@w3.org
Message-ID: <40b78fb3.339934319@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Martin Duerst wrote:
>I think Bjoern has a very valid point. This reminds me of
>a lecture I gave here at Keio just this week, where I tried
>to explain character encoding to students in very basic terms.
>http://www.w3.org/People/D%c3%bcrst/SFC/2004/0418Hagino.html.
>
>Maybe some of that lecture can serve as a starting point,
>although of course it needs quite some work.

http://www.w3.org/2001/04/roadmap/xml-charset.svg is another
illustration that might be of some use in this regard. It does not
explain what a character encoding is but how it is supposed to be
determined for XML documents.

Received on Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:41:13 UTC