'Re: characters not displayed'

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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: characters not displayed
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <f.gassauer () aon ! at>
Date:       2000-10-13 5:13:52
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On Friday 13 October 2000 00:10, Stefan Siegel wrote:
> Ferdinand Gassauer schrieb:
> > Hi!
> >
> > <HTML>
> > La Cōte d'Azur au c&#156;ur d'un front trčs actif
> > </HTML>
> >
> > where is the &#156 gone - it's not displayed in konqueror
> > is it a font problem or KDE ?
> >
> > it“s displayed in netscape and galeon
>
> This is a correct behavior of konqueror. If no charset is given you should
> take ISO 8859/1 (aka Latin 1). This Character set has a block of reserved
> characters: &129; to &159; which are empty. Using them should result in
> displaying them as "&;" encoding.
>
> I think you are reffering to the ISO violation done by Mico$uck in Win 3.1.
> They added some chars in the empty space making their code incompatible
> with the rest of the world.
> If Netscape renders it as &oelig; that only means they went in bed wit the
> evil side...
>
> If you need this ligatue use &oelig; or the ISO 8859/15 character set or
> unicode.
8859/15 does not work - unicode ? do you meen utf8 - do I have to take 
special fonts ?

BTW utf16 repeats the complete sentence - is thic correct ?

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