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Re: When you want one odd character....

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Saturday, May 18, 2002, 8:35
> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 06:50:21 +0200 > From: Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...> > > On 17 May 02, at 14:07, Clint Jackson Baker wrote: > > Also, how do I set the page encoding? > > Ideally, in the web server, by telling it that the page is UTF-8 > encoded (for example, for the Apache that my web hoster uses, I call > the page "foo.html.utf8" and then have "AddCharset utf-8 .utf8" which > causes Apache to send "Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8" to > browsers). Otherwise, try adding
No. Ideally, character entities (the &# thingies) mean the same thing and are displayed identically by all browsers out there, no matter what character set the page is transmitted in. The HTML standard is quite clear on this issue --- you can use Unicode character entities even if your page is transmitted in Cyrillic or Mac Roman! In the real world. however, your advice is good. In the old days, browsers might need to map the Unicode characters on a page into many different fonts since there were no full Unicode fonts, or even fonts where you could use the Unicode code points directly. And some of them don't do the work of setting that up unless they know from the start that it's needed --- even though they might have a Unicode font. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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