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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/18/04 11:57
Petr Vileta wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
> news:YdWdnfmtCP_8i2PZnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>> Petr Vileta wrote:
>>
>>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
>>> news:9ZKdnfZ35fvOJ2DZnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>
>>>> Hi, Wimmy,
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> I don't have a conversion table available - there probably is one
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe this can help you
>>> http://www.unicode.org/
>>>
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anywhere on that site
>> where they indicate the special characters used by MS Word or PDF's.
>>
> If I remember right you wrote in some previous message this
>
> <cite>
> And if they care cutting and pasting from a Word document or a PDF,
> chances are the document itself has the special characters. For
> instance, Word can use different characters for left and right double
> quotes, depending on the version and releases.
> </cite>
>
> As far as I know all browsers (except Linx) convert characters from
> current system codepage to current web page (defined by <meta> tag). If
> you define your web page as UTF-8 all user's cut&paste must be converted
> by browser. UTF-8 have defined all characters like windows-1250,
> windows-1252, koi8-r, kanji and other "exotic" codepages.
>
Yes, the browsers convert the characters. But what does the character
"â" mean in a Word document or a pdf? Is it a left or right quote? A
bullet? Something else?
That's what he needs to know, not the utf-8 codes.
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