Re: Correction/Apology- funky chars. (was: Poll by Email No. 8

Hello, I disappeared from the list a while back but resubscribed only to
discover that during the period I'd left, there was lots of interesting
stuff... It's always the same, isn't it? (I have a new email address
now, too).

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 13:25, Roger Mills wrote:
> Good grief, of all times to send something in UTF 7.  Sorry.
>
> Peter Clark wrote:
> >Latin-1 encoding
> >(iso-8859-1) with "funky" characters.
> >        A group: �  á â ã ä å æ
> >        E group: è é ê ë
> >        I group: ì í î ï
> >        O group: ò ó ô õ ö ø
> >        U group:  ù ù ú û ü
> >        Others: þ ð ý ÿ ç ñ (thorn, eth, accented y, umlauted y, cedilla,
> tilde-n)
>
> (As well as š (s-caron) sometimes.......)
I get a nice little box there. S-caron is not a part of Latin-1
(ISO-8859-1), it's a Microsoft extension. The block it's a part of is
reserved in Latin-1, the idea is that something designed to read ASCII
would ignore the eighth bit and decide it's a control character (such as
End Of File, Backspace, Delete or Carriage Return). Please don't use
S-Caron in anything but Unicode and the appropriate Eastern European
character sets.

> Someone (Wm Annis I think) recently recommended http://www.htmlhelp.com/
> where I learned that s-caron can be represented in html as either & Scaron;
> or &# 352; (caps.), lower case & scaron; or &# 353;-- is this correct?  (I
> also had the numbers reversed in the first post) (There is properly of
> course no space after the ampersand or ampersand#).
> I know that Alt 0154 doesn't always work-- it does on my browser, but
> Validator said no-no.
&# 353; is requesting a character in the Unicode range, that's why it
worked. Alt-0154 is requesting the evil character that's not a part of
Latin-1. The character you inserted would only display reliably on
computers running Windows.

Tristan

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