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[nycphp-talk] Character set issues revisited

tedd tedd at sperling.com
Tue Oct 23 09:12:06 EDT 2007


At 7:21 PM -0400 10/21/07, John Campbell wrote:
>The first thing to understand about character encoding is the overlap
>between UTF-8 and 8859-1.  Below is a sample
>a - lower case a (Same in 8859-1 & UTF-8)
>à - a acute (Available in 8859-1 & UTF8 but different values..)
>éí - Chinese character (Not in 8859-1, in UTF-8)

A small clarification -- it's not really overlap, 
but rather UTF-8 is a super-set containing 8859-1 
like both contain ASCII.

Other than that minor clarification, you've been spot-on with your advice.

Cheers,

tedd
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