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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
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Random832 |
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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible |
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Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:54:20 -0500 |
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Filipp Gunbin <address@hidden> writes:
> I see. However, this doesn't seem to affect English and American
> English languages, but rather European ones.
There are occasional accented words e.g. naïve, borrowed from
other languages. And also punctuation marks (more common with
people who use certain word processing software packages that
automatically replace typewriter quotes with them).
> Honestly, I always though that those languages do not have many
> encodings in use, probably I'm wrong.
Well, obviously theres Latin-1 and UTF-8. Theres also
Windows-1252, which is semi-compatible with Latin-1. You can
sometimes end up with the Windows-1252 bytes treated as if they
were Latin-1 C1 controls (and perhaps encoded further into
UTF-8). There are also older encodings that arent used much
anymore e.g. DOS 437/850, MacRoman, etc.
I¹ve also seen content that was mechanically translated from one
to another using an 8-bit mapping table, with incompatible
characters mapped arbitrarily. For example, if you ever see
something with quotes/apostrophes replaced with superscripts,
like in this paragraph, this probably means the text originated
in MacRoman and was translated to Latin-1 with the ³André
Pirard² mapping.
Anyway, the point is, since non-ASCII characters arenââ¬â¢t
pervasive, itââ¬â¢s easy to miss noticing that somethingââ¬â¢s wrong
with them. For one last demo, this paragraph features UTF-8,
treated as Windows-1252, and then re-encoded as UTF-8 again.
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, (continued)
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Yuri Khan, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Random832, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Yuri Khan, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/15
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible,
Random832 <=
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Random832, 2015/12/15