On Thursday, 11. July 2002 15:06, Nigel Peck wrote:
> I don't actually have an accent key, the data is coming from a database
> and causing the problems. It' s sorted with the conversion from
> iso-8859-1 to UTF-8 that was suggested.
Oh, well, this is a common mistake German users do: There is an extra key with
the two french accents, and they use that for single quote and apostrophe. It
might even be that a certain mislead OS uses the >128bit characters always
when typing the backtick.
>
> > Those two characters are ISO-8859-1 characters with character codes >
>
> 128
>
> Shouldn't that be < 128 (for backtick and single quote)?
Well, in ISO-8859-1 there are extra characters for the two accents.
(Rationale: an accent is not a single quote nor a backtick, although they
look like them. The use is different.)
> And when people say ANSI with reference to character sets do they mean
> ASCII or iso-8859-1?
ANSI usually means the Windows charset, which is ISO-8859-1/15 plus extra
chars in the 128-159 gap (ISO-8859-1/15 doesn't have chars there in order to
maintain ISO-2022 compatibility - do not even ask what that is, it's
prehistoric).
> One more question, what's iso-8859-15?
It is ISO-8859-1 with s/CURRENCY SYMBOL/EURO SIGN/, nothing more. (Since the
euro sign is now really crucial over here and when ISO-8859-1 was designed
the Euro wasn't even thought of, they had to do such a thing - ISO-8859-1
serves it's purpose well otherwise, so it was left unmodified.)
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Joerg
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