[kde-linux] Encoding questions

[Randy Kramer]

On Friday 13 June 2008 06:59 am, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> 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.

I noticed things looked a little strange (you mean the ˈ, which I guess 
are HTML "entities"?).  For now, it's not too important to me--the objective 
is to actually display (and save) the text correctly, which I have a handle 
on how to do (I've changed the encoding for kate (I can't do that for nedit, 
afaict, because it doesn't support unicode, my first choice editor), and I'll 
download some better fonts for display purposes).

> > >       <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 ;-)

;-), or really ;-(

Randy Kramer