On Sunday 12 January 2003 03:23, Anthere wrote:
Your examples are legitimate. How would you feel if
there was a user option to edit in "broken UTF-8
mode"? Then when you edited a page, you could insert
some markup to put in non-ASCII characters. I don't
know what the best way to do this would be; I am
guessing something like \xAB\xCD where \x means "an 8
bit value in hexadecimal representation follows". If
you have any other ideas, let me know.
Jonathan
This could not make it in french. We have accentuated
letters in an awful number of words. That would make
editing very difficult.
If the character is between 128 and 255 inclusive, present it as a single
byte. If it's Greek, give the HTML character name. Else turn it into a
number.
We could have a preference for what encoding to use on edit screens. Any
character not in that encoding is represented as a number, unless it's Greek
or for some reason has a character name.
phma