Sv: UTF-8: Michael takes the plunge

From: Herman Ranes (herman@iet.hist.no)
Date: Mon Apr 05 1999 - 09:54:41 EDT

Last autumn I edited the Irish national anthem (with 'dotted'
ortography) in UTF-8 HTML.

The META header is

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

and it must be in the header section (between <HEAD> and </HEAD>)

If you want to take a look, the URL is

http://www.hist.no/~herman/ga/eire.html

(Any errors there, by the way?)

Some UTF-8 character encodings are at

http://www.hist.no/~herman/utf8.html

Helsing HR

Michael Everson skreiv:
>
> I need to make an HTML document with UTF-8 encoding. I'm on a Mac running
> Mac OS 8.5, and to my knowledge I have no tools which will allow me to just
> format UTF-8, so I will have to type in the double-byte characters it by
> hand.
>
> The document will contain, for instance, Latin A-Z, and A WITH ACUTE, and D
> WITH DOT ABOVE.
>
> So how do I do it? What (exactly) do I paste in the header (charset=utf8)?
> Is there anything I can use to actually view the result? To my knowledge
> WGL4 fonts don't have most of the characters I need; maybe NT does. Mac OS8
> has all that Text Encoding stuff in the System Folder, but none of its use
> is apparent even to the expert user.
>
> --
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> 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland
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