Re: Re: bad characters on RSS feeds

> There is no emdash etc. in ISO-8859-1. On my Windows PC, all the
> browsers treat a declaration of ISO-8859-1 as if it was windows-1252.

They're not the same and apps shouldn't treat them that way.  Especially
with regard to smart quotes.

> Maybe you can simply swithch to windows-1252 without other changes.
> Maybe you can code emdash as — etc.

Bear in mind that numeric entities are UNICODE ONLY.  They're not numeric
expressions of the same encoding of the main document.  So if you need a
particular character rememember that you cannot simple numerically encode
the character from the current encoding.

> Maybe change to UTF-8, but that involves a change of encoding for all
> non-ASCII charaters.

A change that once taken often solves a great many other learning curve
problems.

Encoding, it's like 'turtles all the way down'.  Just when you think you
know all of it you discover you don't.

-Bill Kearney



 
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