Re: utf-8 ?

On 4/29/09 6:52 PM, "Reese" <howell.r@inkworkswell.com> wrote: > Tom Worster wrote: >> On 4/28/09 4:05 PM, "Reese" <howell.r@inkworkswell.com> wrote: >> >>> Granted, 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. > > Right, and I figured out the bit that was confusing me earlier: years > ago, I read that some encodings such as &#0147; and &#0148; (curly > quotes) should not be used, that &#8220; and &#8221; 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. why use SGML character entity references in a utf-8 file or stream? can't you just put the character in the file?