* Luk Claes <luk.claes@ugent.be> [2004-12-16 14:35]:
> Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>| consultant.data is *not* meant to contain /any/ 8bit characters. There
>| is no encoding defined for that file and it gets used in all the
>| languages directly, ending up with b0rked characters on the webpages,
>| especially in non-latin and utf8 environments (like japanese).
>
> Sorry, I overlooked the 'accent circonflex' in the address of Ankeo.
And yet again a pound symbol in the "Added Viridian Sun (req. on
04-07-29)" entry....
There is a reason why there is the comment at the top of the file. :-/
> You are right to complain and to keep remembering us to use valid HTML
> entities, but please try to be gentle.
I suggest anyone to edit this file (and others that have the same
problem, like vendors.CD or similar files that I stumble upon every now
and then): Use some editor that lets you search for 8bit characters.
Here is a quick recipe for how to do it with vim:
/[^Vx80-^VxFF]
That is, ctrl-v for ^V and the rest typed as seen, it gets displayed
like:
/[~@-ÿ] (where ÿ is y with umlauts -- don't want to send 8bit
characters in an explenation :) -- at least it looks that in my locale,
am not sure how it might look in some utf8 or other locale.
Toddy, 0xA0 (shift-space?) is an 8bit character, too.
Alfie
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