On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Vuillemot, Ward W wrote:
UNICODE is a character encoding that can handle any character irrespective of
language
When I output to the web I will need to convert UNICODE to some appropriate
character-set
based upon the language selection.
Is this correct?
You can send Unicode directly to the Web browser. Just make sure you
announce in the HTTP header that the body is encoded in UTF-8.
Examples:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#examples
If the locale fonts are not already in Unicode (they are today
on all Windows and Mac machines, Linux and other Unices are following
in the most recent versions), then it is the duty of the web browser
to convert from Unicode into the local font encoding.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
