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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