[kde-linux] Encoding questions (Chusslove Illich)

[Randy Kramer]

On Monday 09 June 2008 08:14 am, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> The encoding for the merriam-webster page seems to be
> iso8859-1.

One thing I noticed the other day, but forgot to mention:  Yes, there is 
something on that page that seems to say the page is encoded in iso8859-1:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

But elsewhere on the same page there are lines that suggest that at least some 
part of it might be encoded in utf-8:

google_afs_ie     = 'utf8';                  // select input encoding scheme
google_afs_oe     = 'utf8';                  // select output encoding scheme

My guess is that the definition is fetched from some database and displayed 
using utf-8.  (On the other hand, maybe the utf-8 is only for google ads or 
similar displayed on that page?)  (A further guess is that, if the 
pronunciation key were displayed in iso-8859-1 ...

Well, wait--the one clue I have is that if I C&P the definition from konqueror 
to kate, with kate changed to a font that can display the correct glyphs (the 
upside down e, for example), the pronunciation key is displayed correctly in 
kate.  Would that work if the encoding on the konqueror page was iso-8859-1, 
or only if it was utf-8?  I'm not sure, and don't desperately need to know at 
the moment. ;-)

Just for reference, here is a C&P of the pronunciation "key" from one m-w page 
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligent):

Pronunciation: \in-ˈte-lə-jənt\

I guess I just wanted to note that there is some uncertaintly, at least in my 
mind, as to whether the definition on the m-w.com pages is encoded in 
iso-8859-1 or utf-8.  If it is encoded in iso-8859-1, could it be displayed 
properly if C&P'd into kate?  

Randy Kramer