begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:14:52PM -0800: > On 1/9/08, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:35:00PM > > -0800: > > > Anyone know of a library or utility that can be fed a UTF string, and > > > stomp it down to the most-visually-equivalent ASCII string? > > > > Would converting to UTF-7 work? > > Wow, I didn't even know there was a UTF-7.
I found it the last time we had The Great UTF Discussion[tm]. > According to wikipedia, it > can represent most of the lower set of printable ascii characters > (32-127, decimal) as is. For all other characters, it takes the UTF-16 > representation and base-64 encodes it. That has got to be harsh for a > human to read. Easier than a bunch of empty boxes. Or a bunch of symbols that are almost but not quite like each other. I really do want some sort of visual marker if my system is going to go display UTF at me. > I wonder how they handle the UTF-16 byte ordering? I *will* not start the endian war. I will *not* start the endian war. *I* will not start the endian war. -- In my environment, I set LANG to C And that's how it is going to be. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
