- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:01:04 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>, Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>
On Thursday, June 29, 2000 at 16:35, igraham@ic-unix.ic.utoronto.ca (Ian Graham) wrote: > Bertilo is correct -- things are fine if your documet only > contains ASCII characters, as they map onto the same byte > sequence in UTF-8. > > HOwever, things go wrong if you hav non-ascii characters > in the document. They also fail (on Navigator 4 and earlier) > if you have charcter references in the document that > references non-latin-1 characters. For example, character > references like > > ఴ > > (this is a made up number I'm afraid), which references the > 3124th character in Unicode, will only work if you explicitlyu > set UTF-8 using a META element. And if you save a file as UTF-8 and include the UTF8 byte order mark, IE for the Macintosh at least doesn't deal with this very well (it renders the byte order mark as a garbage character). I don't know how well other browsers handle this. -- Christian Smith | csmith@barebones.com | http://web.barebones.com He who dies with the most friends... Is still dead!
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