Re: Netscape 6 support for XML

EU citizen wrote:


> I had an exchange in another thread about this. I'm using Notepad to create
> web pages in Ascii. Some one assured me that Ascii is a subset of Unicode,
> so there shouldn't be a problem. Is that incorrect?, If so, can anyone
> recommend a free Win 98 application which creates Unicode files?

US-ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 but US-ASCII is only about character 
points 0..127 which do not contain any accented letters at all. If you 
are using Notepad on Western European Windows 98 then it probably works 
with Windows-1252 and that is an 8bit encoding that is not a subset of 
Unicode and not compatible with it.
As for an editor, there are probably some with better Unicode support 
that Notepad but I can't say for sure about Windows 98, for instance 
JEdit from http://www.jedit.org/ has all Unicode and XML support needed, 
it is a Java application so it needs a Java runtime which you can get on 
http://java.sun.com/ if you do not have it already. But whether there is 
a suitable Java runtime still around for Windows 98 I can't promise.


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	Martin Honnen
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