On 2012-05-18 12:51, Ben Companjen wrote: > Compare: Hélène (copied from OL) and Hélène (typed myself)
Some people replied that they didn't see any difference, and that's the problem. The difference only shows on some systems. The codes are different, which you can prove by copy-and-pasting the text to the Unix command "od -c" (octal dump): 0000000 C o m p a r e : H e 314 201 l e 314 0000020 200 n e ( c o p i e d f r o m 0000040 O L ) a n d H 303 251 l 303 250 n 0000060 e ( t y p e d m y s e l f ) Here, 314 201 and 314 200 are "combining diacritical marks" thrown in after a plain ASCII "e" while 303 251 and 303 250 are the common UTF-8 for é and è respectively. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character Wikipedia would always prefer the latter. I remember manually editing the names of some Swedish authors in OL this way, because the combining marks looked ugly in my browser. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
