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Building more character
It's even worse than I expected [1].
Or funnier, depending upon your viewpoint.
I'm follwing Sam Ruby's advice on Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn [2] and testing what
comes through as I copy-n- paste.
I'm using FireFox verion 1.0 [3] under Linux for testing; I've yet to use
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (which should prove to be dreadful and amusing
at the same time).
So I'm copy-n-pasting the following from my last entry [4]:
> Γªρßåγ€
>
> It really bugs me
>
“Building character [5]”
And what I get back is:
> text is WINDOWS-1252
>
> 00000000: 0D 0A 26 23 39 31 35 3B AA 26 23 39 36 31 3B DF ..Γ.ρ.
> 00000010: E5 26 23 39 34 37 3B 80 0D 0A 0D 0A 49 74 20 72 .γ.....It r
> 00000020: 65 61 6C 6C 79 20 62 75 67 73 20 6D 65 eally bugs me
>
> Γªρßåγ€
>
> It really bugs me
>
What the XXXX [6]?
Not only is Firefox, under Linux, sending input to the test form as WINDOWS-
1252 **but** it's also sending me HTML (HyperText Markup Language) entities
in numeric form! They're the correct numeric entities for the characters in
question, but … what the XXXX?
To say I wasn't expecting this is a bit of an understatement.
Well, back to hacking.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/04.1
[2]
http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/04/14/i18n.html
[3]
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html
[4]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/04.1
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/04.1
[6]
http://thedailywtf.com/
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