I think you are confused about utf-8 declaring iso-8859-1 text to be utf-8 doesn't make it utf-8
If you want it to be utf-8 you need to convert it to that. Terry On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:53 PM, JC Ahangama <ahang...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe I know what is going on. > > The treatment of ISO-8859-1 set by Unicode is the culprit, at least in the > Windows machines. Please check the three versions of an HTML file for the > same text given at the bottom of the page. Characters outside ASCII that are > still within ISO-8859-1 (codepoints 128 thru 255) are not included in the > Unicode repertoire (as the last sample illustrates). The HTML pages do not > declare a font, and therefore, uses the Last Resort font of the system, > which demonstrably *has* the letters that UTF-8 set thinks are missing. > > If you are working with people that want to use Indic, it is best that they > transliterate their languages to ISO-8859-1 and display them by means of > orthographic fonts. Here are two web sites that illustrates it (The language > is Sinhala): > http://www.ahangama.com/ -- My Wordpress blog has both English and Sinhala > http://www.lovatasinhala.com/ -- has only *one* graphic, that of the lion. > > Regards, > > JC > > > 1. No character set declaration. Shows the text correctly because ISO-8859-1 > is the default charset. > ====================================================================== > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title>ISO-8859-1 but no character set declared</title> > </head> > <body> > ASCII lc:<br> > <span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:8px;"> > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > </span><br><br> > Some non-English letters:<br> > <span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:8px;"> > ðþææéúíóáðçøçµëûüïöäÐçôçñ > </span> > </body> > </html> > ====================================================================== > > 2. character declared as iso-8859-1. The text shows correctly > ====================================================================== > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title>ISO-8859-1 charset explicitly declared</title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; Charset=iso-8859-1"> > </head> > <body> > ASCII lc:<br> > <span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:8px;"> > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > </span><br><br> > Some non-English letters:<br> > <span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:8px;"> > ðþææéúíóáðçøçµëûüïöäÐçôçñ > </span> > </body> > </html> > ====================================================================== > > 3. characters set declared as UTF-8. No European characters! > ====================================================================== > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <title>ISO-8859-1 charset explicitly declared</title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; Charset=utf-8"> > </head> > <body> > ASCII lc:<br> > <span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:8px;"> > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > </span><br><br> > Some non-English letters:<br> > <span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:8px;"> > ðþææéúíóáðçøçµëûüïöäÐçôçñ > </span> > </body> > </html> > =================================== > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ----Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
