Re: "Visually approximate" conversion from unicode to Windows-1251 (or similar code page)

From: Andreas Prilop (nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 03:45:15 CST

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On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Paul Johnston wrote:

> I am having problems with a few characters, primarily an
> apostrophe-like character

An acute accent (´). <sigh>
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/apostrophe.html
http://www.moosburg.org/design/apo.html

> If I encode the output as Windows-1251, the character causes an error.

Windows-1251 is Cyrillic and has no acute accent.
Use Windows-1252, West European Latin.

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