Re: utf-8 ?
| From: | Reese | Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:52:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: utf-8 ? | ||
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Tom Worster wrote:
On 4/28/09 4:05 PM, "Reese" <howell.r@inkworkswell.com> wrote:Right, and I figured out the bit that was confusing me earlier: years ago, I read that some encodings such as “ and ” (curly quotes) should not be used, that “ and ” should be used instead. I misremembered that, when I looked at the utf-8 charset here: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8-t1.html I stand apprised and enlightened. I found the encodings for letters G with breve, S with cedilla, and lower case I w/out the dot, too. ReeseGranted, this isn't a PHP question but I'm curious, how does UTF-8 solve this display issue?if we're talking about web browsers, they are quite good at automatically choosing fonts that can display the unicode characters it finds in a page.