RE: Input multilingual text in a form...

Donatella,
 
If the form's encoding is UTF-8, then the data you get is going to be UTF-8
encoded. You shouldn't need to convert it at all.
 
ISO-8859-1 is compatible with UTF-8 only in the ASCII characters. It's
INCOMPATIBLE for non-English characters.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Lenny Turetsky
Senior Member, Technical Staff
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-----Original Message-----
From: Donatella Caridi [mailto:carididonatella@tiscalinet.it]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:13 PM
To: www-international@w3.org
Subject: Input multilingual text in a form...


Hello all,

If someone input characters from various languages into a form in a browser
and  form's encoding is in UTF-8, what is the encoding of text insert? Is
UTF-8 or something else? 
I want to store this text as unicode (UTF-8) in a database, but if this text
is not UTF-8, i need a converter from all other encoding to UTF-8?
 
Numeric reference of characters in ISO-8859-1 is the same of Unicode, not
only for ASCII character (0-127)?
I think no but i'm not sure.
 
Any link to further information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Donatella