Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 12.03.2013 um 04:08 schrieb Tech Stuff:

>  ¿En qué fecha llegaron
> 
> when I should see:
> 
> ¿En qué fecha llegaron

The first line encodes the text of the last line in UTF-8 encoding, but is displayed to you in a different, an 8-bit encoding. In UTF-8 more than one byte, more than 8 bits, are used to encode the characters. Only the characters of the US-ASCII range (U+0001 - U+007E), i.e. the digits, non-accented characters, punctuation, are encoded by one byte.

The character ¿, INVERTED QUESTION MARK, U+00BF, is encoded in UTF-8 as two bytes: C2BF. These two bytes are in Notepad interpreted as some Latin or MS Windows encoding, i.e. as two different characters, as  and as ¿, which are then displayed as such.

The character é, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE, U+00E9, is encoded in UTF-8 as two bytes: C3A9. These two bytes are in Notepad interpreted as some Latin or MS Windows encoding, i.e. as two different characters and then displayed as à and as ©.

In MS Windows code page CP1252 uses for encoding:

	A9 = ©, COPYRIGHT SIGN
	BF = ¿, INVERTED QUESTION MARK
	C2 = Â, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
	C3 = Ä, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS

So Notepad is using this code page, CP1252, to display the UTF-8 encoded file. What you need to do is to tell Notepad to use UTF-8.

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  Pete

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