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Date/Time: Wed Oct 1 05:19:00 EDT 2003
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Hi,
I'm a web developer at Oxford University in the UK, and we
are considering encoding all our websites in Unicode to allow
support of non-western languages.
However, we have a problem.
[...]
Our problem is the representation of the £ sign (British
pound sign - U+00A3). When we type this character into our
pages and then set the character encoding in our pages to
Unicode (UTF-8) (either by setting it directly in the HTTP
header, or setting it using the <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
tag), when we view the pages we see the standard ASCII set of
characters, but the Pound sign displays as an error.
...
Jim, I hope this doesn't sound too obvious, but you could have missed
it: In your UTF-8 encoded file, do you have a single byte 0xA3 or 163?
It sounds like this is what you are doing if you first type in the pound
sign then declare the encoding to be UTF-8. But 0xA3 alone is invalid
UTF-8, so this would explain the error. The pound sign needs to be
encoded as two bytes according to the UTF-8 definition, which would be
0xC2 0xA3 - or as "£" as Marco says.
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Peter Kirk
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http://www.qaya.org/
