From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 22 12:33:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDD0106564A for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:33:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639AF8FC15 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q3MCXfub075497 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:33:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q3MCXfub075497 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1335098022; bh=aQX5BSXOZDr8Apg55I63HzcL6DOhsbfmkEdrdqInNlY=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: Message-ID:Mime-Version; b=Ys2/TOg0pFWZCFK5Y+ER9BjAHzBzUeQahHvv7vXI3xprJgz2X8n0yNqwIsVMgxZPJ 8c77UWLWcrKaBvERqxOt86tt9Ho1ll9DKl22apSbhihIg7Imtwlrd6dBoqSDv6ld3O Rf7rqo9q/3UUeoQBWQSrW58zI7AVBC1FbpiP5DjI= Message-ID: <4F93FA9E.80309@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:33:34 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <20120421055823.GA6788@tinyCurrent> <4F9253D7.7010609@locolomo.org> <4F9278A2.1020301@locolomo.org> <4F93CC95.5050209@locolomo.org> <4F93E159.7020807@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120422130642.cb5b09c2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120422130642.cb5b09c2.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDB004D3DB89819382AE7D2A5" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_ALL,DKIM_SIGNED,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:33:52 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDB004D3DB89819382AE7D2A5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 22/04/2012 12:06, Polytropon wrote: > How about the "extended ASCII character set" that has a mixture > of "non-US glyphs" and semi-graphic symbols? >=20 > http://asciiset.com/extended.gif >=20 > This default layout isn't tied to a specific encoding, if I > remember correctly, or is it? Accessing the set as seen in the > picture allows using "special character" from many languages, > such as german umlauts and eszett, greek gamma and phi, > danish o-slash, swedish a-circle and even the yen symbol. > And the nice semi-graphic symbols to draw boxes and backgrounds, > as well as card deck symbols or the "lazy L". Yeah. It's just a compromise 1-byte per glyph character set designed to support the wealthier bits of Western Europe as well as the USA, from back when the cost of supporting all sorts of different locales was really expensive compared to the expected sales of equipment in them. Doesn't have a =E2=82=AC symbol as far as I can see. I doubt it would go= down well in =C5=81=C3=B3d=C5=BA either. Nor =CE=91=CE=B8=CE=AE=CE=BD=CE=B1 a= s it doesn't have a complete Greek alphabet. Most of the Greek letters are there to support their use as mathematical symbols. It was a reasonable compromise back in the late 1980's but if anyone came up with this as a serious proposal today, they'd just get laughed at= =2E Given that China and India are going to become /the/ big economies within the next several years, only having a limited anglo-centric system like that will be a significant obstacle to future popularity. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigDB004D3DB89819382AE7D2A5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+T+qUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxvuACggsymac1T3ZfL8JUYMld/ryjC 0nEAn3rxsE8xdStLBn5f0k3mSiYhT5ZG =MxsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDB004D3DB89819382AE7D2A5--