hi roymeo,

sorry, maye I was a bit unclear, those charcodes (0x8A and 0x9A, or in
other words: &#138 and &#154) are the codes for german special chars "�"
(a umlaut) and "�" (o umlaut) in the MAC ROMAN CODEPAGE. the letters you
mention are correct for the ANSI CODEPAGE (iso-8859-1/windows-1251) . In
fact, I discovered those bugs when I wrote a script that converts mac
roman text to ansi text, and which works fine for all other letters
except those. But anyway, it definetely is a bug, because I would expect
that contains() and offset() work for all chars (except for 0x00), no
matter what letter they stand for. it's a strange behavior to mix up
chars in such basic string functions.

valentin


roymeo wrote:
> I just tested this on the PC....
>
> those are the upper and lower case s with a reversed ^ over them.
> S and s
>
> This is confirmed by my HTML Reference book (up to HTML 4):
>
> Š in HTML is Uppercase S with canon (nonstandard)
> š in HTML is Lowercase s with canon (nonstandard)
>
> along with the note:
>
> "Note: in the standard, the values from 127 to 159 are not
> assigned.  Authors are advised not to use them.  Many of them only
> work
> under windows or produce different characters on other operating
> systems or
> with different default font sets."
> -- p 1008 in HTML: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, �1999
>
> I believe the regular place for the lowercase umlat characters are:
> 0228 = �
> 0235 = �
> 0239 = �
> 0246 = �
> 0252 = �
> those characters have been typed in on the numeric keypad while
> holding the
> ALT key on a PC, so those numbers certainly work for me on a WinPC.
>
> I suggest you make sure you're using the correct character reference.
>
> (and when someone has a suggestion or question about what you're
> doing, you
> might consider double-checking your info...)
>
> r��me�
>
> At 12:04 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote:
>> hi daniel,
>>
>> no, those are the mac char codes for the german special chars "�" (a
>> umlaut) and "�" (o umlaut), both lower case.
>>
>> valentin
>>
>>> In this case, is it possible that these two characters (138 and 154)
>>> are lower and upper case versions of one another?
>>>
>>
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