At 3:06 PM -0300 5/28/02, Leonardo Lima de Vasconcellos wrote:
Thanks, Joe! It works!!! :-)
Just for understanding purposes what is UTF-8 an MacRoman?
They're two different extensions of ASCII. ASCII is a mapping for
127 characters (such as "A") into numbers (65, in this example). But
127 is not enough characters for most languages in the world; it does
not, for example, have any room for accented characters. So we need
to use some extension of ASCII, or some entirely different way of
representing characters as numbers in a computer. These are known as
text encodings.
The MacRoman encoding is a 1-byte format that is the same as ASCII
for values 1-127, but uses 128-255 to represent various accented
characters and other handy symbols. UTF-8 is a different encoding,
one that can represent "Unicode" -- a fairly new international
standard capable, in principle at least, of representing any writing
system on the planet. UTF-8 is also the same as ASCII for values
1-127, but other characters are represented by more than one byte.
UTF-8 is a really cool encoding, and I encourage you to learn more
about it as the opportunities arise.
Cheers,
- Joe
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