Re: OT: Question: Unicode

Another question-- where can I find a listing of the Unicode nos. for the
chars. from (hex) 0100 thru approx 02B8 (LatinA, B and IPA)?  If I start
making my own html I'll need that, as it would be cumbersome to keep jumping
going from Notepad to Word just to look them up.

> Roger Mills wrote:
> > I've created a web page using MS Word, and Lucida Sans Unicode.  In the
> > header, MS says "charset-MS 1252" or somesuch. Should this be changed to
> > UTF8?
On first reading of Carlos' reply, I concluded that I should specify UTF8.
On second reading, I'm not so sure....
>
Carlos wrote:
> Well, you should say UTF-8 if the text file is in UTF format, that is, if
> you will give entities above ASCII with variable length codes (those that
> look like ë for an á).
I don't quite understand this, but it's not what I'm doing (I think :_))

 >You should use MS 1252, or better: ISO-8859-1, if
> you plan to use Latin-1 codes (as in this e-mail) and html numeric
entities
> (those codes that look like "”") for Unicode values over 255.
That is indeed the case. Chars. are spcified e.g. &#660 is glottal stop,
&#30l is i-breve.  Since I use the Intl. keyboard, I can type á, ê etc.
directly, and they appear as á,ê in the html.  In my Kash material, I
converted these to 225 and 234 just to be on the safe side, though it didn't
seem to matter.
Now at the moment, I'm using Word's web-page formatter (a WYSISYG thing)
since I wasn't sure how to deal with entities above 0255, also it's a simple
matter to find and insert them in the text.

So now I'm thinking, I'll leave the specification as 1252 and see what
happens; as I said, this is a temporary thing.  As you can tell, this has me
a bit confused.........

I must say, for quick-and-dirty web page creation, I liked the Netscape
composer on my old W98 computer, but it's not included in the new set up,
and it's unclear, from Netscape's website, whether it's still included in
their package (most of which I don't want) or whether it would work with XP.
Does anyone know???
Thanks for any help!

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