10 Jul
2007
10 Jul
'07
7:53 p.m.
Hallo,
On 7/10/07, Andrew Coppin
Last time I looked, everything treats "text" as being 8 bits per character. (Or, more commonly, 7, and if the MSB isn't 0, weird things happen...) That's why (for example) HTML has lots of weird constructs such as "…" in it, instead of just typing in the actual character you want. (And let's be clear here: SGML and all those decendents are all using "<" and ">" - the mathematical greater and less operations - when what they *really* mean are angle brackets, a quite distinct glyph.) Last time I checked, nobody was keen on using 64 bits per character...
You must look out more. I use áéíóúç in web pages all the time. -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/