RE: [WSG] Entity Name vs Entity Number

[James Oppenheim]

Well thanks everyone, especially Lachlan. I will have a look at all the links.

Cheers.

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> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:39:44 -0300
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
> Subject: Re: [WSG] Entity Name vs Entity Number
>
> Well, thank you both!
> So I´m sure it was a problem of literally encoding the file.
> Thanks again;
> Eugenio.
>
> On 10/19/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > You need to make sure the file is actually encoded as UTF-8. You can't
> > just label it as such and expect it to be so. That's like getting a
> > block of milk chocolate, sticking a dark chocolate label on it and then
> > wondering why it still tastes like milk chocolate!
> >
> > http://lachy.id.au/log/2004/12/guide-to-unicode-part-1
> > http://lachy.id.au/log/2004/12/guide-to-unicode-part-2
> > http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/01/guide-to-unicode-part-3
> >
> > As for the meta element, there is a much better way. Using the meta
> > element for specifying the encoding in HTML is considered bad practice
> > and it will not work in XHTML.
> >
> > http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/01/content-type
> >
> > > A person told me that as Win XP runs on Latin-1, the site will work
> > > if I use tht encoding,
> >
> > Latin-1 refers to ISO-8859-1. Windows actually uses Windows-1252 as its
> > default encoding, which is a superset of ISO-8859-1.
> >
> > --
> > Lachlan Hunt
> > http://lachy.id.au/
>
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