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Re: Changing charset of mail to be sent



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On Friday, June  2 at 09:25 AM, quoth Wilkinson, Alex:
>    0n Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:01:26PM +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote: 
>
>    >Hi,
>    >
>    >* Wilkinson, Alex [06-06-02 00:06:50 +0930] wrote:
>    >
>    >>Okay, braving up here. I am a newbie when it comes to char sets.
>    >>What is meant by UTF-8 ?
>    >
>    >"utf-8" is an encoding scheme for Unicode and Unicode is something like 
>    >a huge table which stores all possible types of characters.
>    >
>    >With Unicode and Utf-8 (there're other encoding schemes, too), you can 
>    >nearly mix up all types of characters in just one mail/text 
>    >file/website/... like:
>    >
>    >  ??² + ??² = ??² ??? ??????¹x???dx ??? ???x/???y ???
>
>Is there a definitive document that explains character sets ?

Well, character sets tend to be defined by single documents specific 
to that character set. The definitive Unicode document, for example, 
is over fifteen hundred pages ($64.03 on Amazon.com 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321185781/sr=8-1/qid=1149218350/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3255840-0506204?%5Fencoding=UTF8).

On the other hand, there's a bunch of *very* good articles in 
Wikipedia. Here's a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_set

~Kyle
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