Re: Reporting UTF-8 related problems?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp> writes:

|> In article <shznw9eotw.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>, Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:
|> > Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp> writes:
|> >>>  Char: “ (0150310, 53448, 0xd0c8) point=309 of 321 (96%) column 12 
|> >> 
|> >>  This is because Emacs received this byte sequence:
|> >>  	ESC $ ( B ! H
|> >>  "ESC $ ( B" is a designation sequence for jisx0208, 
|> >>  and the following two bytes "! H" specifies the above
|> >>  Japanese symbol.
|> 
|> > Originally, it was the "right double quote raising" and not meant to be
|> > a special Japanese symbol ;)
|> 
|> I checked the contents of the html file itself and found this:
|> 
|> 	&#132;Die Familie Schroffenstein&#147
|> 
|> I thought that the notation &#NUMBER is for transmitting
|> Unicode character of code NUMBER.  But, 132 and 147 are
|> control codes in Unicode, not any kind of quotings.  Do you
|> know a proper web page describing the meaning of them?

The numbers are supposed to be ISO 8859-1 characters codes.  I'd guess the
page has been written with some broken (a.k.a. W*nd*ws) software (the use
of *.htm makes this apparent).  There is no hope for being compliant to
any standard.  I tried to validate it through the W3.org validator, but no
document type matches.

Andreas.

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