DOH!!!!! Of course!!!.. I deserve to have my captain crunch whistle taken away from me!!
I knew it would be something embarrassingly obvious. Awwwwww fudge! Thanks, Mano On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:56 -0700, Jim Self wrote: > Mano wrote: > >After the internationalization talk got me fired up... > >At first I tried printing out a variable with greek text in it > >SET FOO="" <-if that doesn't show up in your browser trust me it > >is Greek (iso-8859-7) > >WRITE FOO > >and I get greek :) > >WRITE $ASCII(FOO) > >and I get 206 no matter what the first character in FOO is > >WRITE $CHAR(210) > >gives me a block > > How did the Greek characters get entered into email? They are not iso-8859-7 > as received. > They look like UTF-8 Unicode and they do show up as Greek letters when I > select the UTF-8 > character encoding from the view menu of my browser. UTF-8 is an 8-bit > variable length > encoding of the multi-byte unicode characters. Notice that every odd numbered > byte has the > ascii value 206, the same as in your previous example. > > In the table below, the 4th column displays the Greek letters from your > example above when > the page is viewed with character encoding iso-8859-7. The 5th column > displays the > corresponding unicode entities for the same Greek characters. These appear in > Greek even > with my normal character encoding of iso-8859-1 (western). > > s z="" f i=2:2:$l(z) s c=$e(z,i),a=$a(c) w > !,i,?3,c,?5,a,?10,$c(a+48),?13,"&#",$s(a>127:768+a,1:a),"; > ",c?1U,c?1L,c?1N,c?1P,c?1C,c?1E > > 2 155 Λ 000011 > 4 154 Κ 000011 > 6 158 Ξ 000011 > 8 148 Δ 000011 > 10 163 Σ 000101 > 12 155 Λ 000011 > 14 166 Φ 000101 > 16 154 Κ 000011 > > I don't remember the correct algorithm for converting UTF-8 right now, but > the above > produced results consistent with the rendering of the characters in Mozilla > for Mano's two > examples. > > --------------------------------------- > Jim Self > Systems Architect, Lead Developer > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
