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Re: Translators! What's your charset?



On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:52:54PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> That's 1 (CP 1250).
ahh, it was 11pm 1 and l looks the same at that time.

> Anyway, why do we need to support Microsoft's quasi-standards in searching
> our web pages, which we don't use, I hope?

We don't, those character sets are what are shipped with udmsearch.

> > The format is flexible:
> > characters in their wierd form:
> 
> Lots of those look like ANSI art on a default font... 
> 
> >   "áâ÷çäå³öúéêëìíîïðòóôõæèãþûýÿùøüàñÁÂ×ÇÄÅ£ÖÚÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÒÓÔÕÆÈÃÞÛÝßÙØÜÀÑ"
Heh, man they do wierd things. In mutt they look like ??????? in vim
they look like accent-a, carat-a division-sign...

> Not sure if I understood this example... it sounds like ISO-8859-2 to me,
> but it doesn't have ¹¾©®, that should be \271\251\276\256 in decimal.

I would prefer the charsets in decimal, everyones editor knows what 123
means.

  - Craig
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