Re: [svg-developers] Unicode and SVG

2010-10-22 Thread Terry Riegel
I think you are confused about utf-8 declaring iso-8859-1 text to be utf-8 doesn't make it utf-8 If you want it to be utf-8 you need to convert it to that. Terry On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:53 PM, JC Ahangama ahang...@gmail.com wrote: I believe I know what is going on. The treatment of

Re: [svg-developers] Unicode and SVG

2010-10-22 Thread JC Ahangama
I agree, sort of. The question is still why does US-ASCII letters show inside an HTML file declared as charset utf-8 and letters like ð,þ, á show as glyph not found. I did not *convert* US-ASCII. You will understand the problem only if you open the attached HTML files on 3 tabs and compare. I

Re: [svg-developers] Unicode and SVG

2010-10-22 Thread Terry Riegel
Us ASCII will always be us ASCII in both encodings. UTF-8 is what you want so convert any non-utf to utf and you'll be fine Terry Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:44 PM, JC Ahangama ahang...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, sort of. The question is still why does US-ASCII letters show

[svg-developers] Unicode and SVG

2010-10-21 Thread ddailey
Hi folks, I'm currently teaching a course with a lot of international students and a few have complained about not being able to get special characters (as with umlauts and the like) to display well in SVG. I haven't played with the issue much, though we've seen fairly sizable variation in

[svg-developers] Unicode and SVG

2010-10-21 Thread JC Ahangama
I believe I know what is going on. The treatment of ISO-8859-1 set by Unicode is the culprit, at least in the Windows machines. Please check the three versions of an HTML file for the same text given at the bottom of the page. Characters outside ASCII that are still within ISO-8859-1 (codepoints