[kde-linux] Encoding questions

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Hi you are welcome. One last note. I've seen that yahoo converts what I've pasted into html and displays the chars ... I hope you're smart enough to read the mails in text.

> >       <span
> class="pronchars">\in-<span
> >
> class="unicode">ˈ</span>te-lə-jənt\</span>
> >     </dd>
> > 
> 
> Thanks! and 
> 
> > Welcome to the encodings hell!

I remember I tried to write my first program in C years ago. It was easy. It was using only one single encoding, but then internet came up and portability was a must, so Itried to write a simple interface for a vocabulary few years ago ... and was planning to finish in aabout 2 days. I spent 3 extra days reading about UTF and iconv and locales and best practices in conversions.
SO THANKS TO EVERYBODY who helped devoloping UNICODE and UTF and to unify them, but unfortunately it looks like we'll be fighting with conversions in future too as a lot of people use the old way.

O, Babylon ;-)

regards

regards




> 
> Thanks ;-(
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 
> PS: Also saw your next note, thanks for that as well!
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:59:57 -0400
> From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Encoding questions (Chusslove
> Illich)
> To: For people using KDE on Linux with related
> questions/problems
> 	<kde-linux at kde.org>
> Message-ID: <200806121259.59052.rhkramer at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="utf-8"
> 
> On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:56 am, Sylviane et Perry White
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:29, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > > 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
> > I have visited some web page (sorry I don't
> remember which), where I could 
> > select the coding either to read the
> "outside" text proper to the site (on 
> > top and left side), or to read the
> "message".
> > Since whith both settings the undisplayed characters
> were common french 
> > accentuated letters I belive different encodings
> coexisted but the designer 
> > of the page failed to write in some indications about
> that for the browser.
> 
> Perry,
> 
> Thanks--I guess like Emanoil said, "welcome to
> encoding hell". ;-(
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 
> 
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