Re: Google Beta mangles ASCII-IPA

From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:47:05 +0000 (UTC)

"Reinhold (Rey) Aman" <aman@sonic.net> wrote:

> You may be in the minority if you use "US-ASCII"

Surely not, if you mean the _character repertoire_, which is what
really matters here.

> (unless that's the
> same as "Western" and "Latin 1").

It's not. But the character repertoire ASCII is a subset of virtually
all character sets in use.

> Your header shows that you're
> using "charset=ISO-8859-1," the very same character set I
> recommended.

The charset (character encoding) isn't the issue really - as far as the
codes of ASCII characters are the same as in ASCII, as they are in all
charsets discussed here.

> So I don't understand your problem or objection to my
> recommendation.

What I objected to was saying utf-8 was the problem. The problem is the
use of characters outside the ASCII repertoire.

Followups trimmed (since this is even more off-topic on a.u.e.). 

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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