Perhaps a typo only, but possibly with dire consequences; so I'd
rather set it right.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 07:16 (GMT-0800), Herman Ranes wrote:
to make the HTML code 'understandable' to Netscape Navigator 4, without
actually encoding in UTF-8:
-Meta tag the document as UTF-8
-Encode
[Sorry Paul, I didn't particularly intend to send this privately.
I notice that the Unicode list no longer sets a Reply-To: header.
Ô Sarasvati, might I humbly request that this behaviour be reinstated
(though of course not overriding any Reply-To that individual
subscribers may wish to set).]
John Cowan wrote:
Versions of Netscape before 4.7 had this bug: character references
greater than #255; only worked if the transmission character set
was UTF-8.
This bug is still present in the Windows version of Netscape 4.75.
Use Edit, Preferences, Fonts to make both Western and
Take a look at the Unicode FAQ on the web, at www.unicode.org
"Gary P. Grosso" wrote:
Hi Unicoders,
I am working on software to emit HTML in the encoding
and character set of the user's choice, from SGML/XML
documents which can contain any Plane 1 Unicode character.
The question is what
Good point. In the past, I have used "surrogate characters" to refer to the
characters encoded above , and surrogate code units to refer to the UTF-16
units D800-DFFF. However, I think that leads to confusion. Nobody has come up
with a good term for all characters above . "Plane 1-16
Title: Win32: Commandline/batch ANSI-UTF8-UTF16-UTF8-ANSI conversion tools
Sure:
uniconv.exe by Basis Technology.
It is distributed for free
as a demo of the Rosette library; download from http://rosette.basistech.com/demo.html.
The version I
have(quite old) does not support UTF-16, but it
Mark Davis wrote:
My personal favorite is "astral
characters" (don't remember who came up with that).
I did. Or at least I came up with "Astral Planes" as opposed to the
"Basic Multilingual Plane".
Somebody got mighty offended, though ("Those planes are *real*!"),
so I dropped it.
--
There
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Doug Ewell wrote:
I have suggested on this list using Plane 14 tags to assist in glyph
selection between C, J, and K or between Russian italics and Serbian
italics because I thought they would provide a nice, all-Unicode
solution *without* resorting to higher protocols.
Look out! Hot button political issue! Delete if uninterested in opinion.
John And I even more humbly request that it *not* be reinstated. Rather
John than reiterating the arguments, I will point to Chip Rosenthal's
John "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful" at
John
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