Confusion over encodings, utf-8, etc.

[Victor Balada Diaz]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:19:18PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> 
> I've entered the world of unicode with my mac, and I'd like to make things
> consistent across my machines.
> 
> I naïvely thought utf-8 would solve everything.  But I find a lot of web pages
> and people's names only show correctly in iso-8859-1.  I thought utf-8 covered
> them all?

UTF-8 supports all characters and is backwards compatible up to
ascii 127, so latin-1 characters will need conversion.

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