Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 05/26/05 23:51

laurenq uantrell (laurenquantrell@hotmail.com) writes:
> Thanks for that. You're right, I do mean non-ASCII characters...
> This gets tricky because many city names and people names contain
> non-ASCII characters and I want to display then properly, however, some
> systems do not support non-ASCII characters and they need to be
> cleansed for output to those systems, so as you point out, there is not
> an always correct translation into ASCII characters.

Systems in 2005 that is not capable to handle non-ASCII characters? So,
not all programs are capable to handle Unicode, but one would at least
imagine that they should be able handle 8-bit charset. If I were you,
I would consider to attempt to kill these systems by starvation and
not feed them any data. :-)

On a more serious point, there are one letter that the snippet I
posted does not handle and that is æ. This gets converted into a ?.


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