* * * * *
                                        
                            Building more character
                                        
It's even worse than I expected [1].

Or funnier, depending upon your viewpoint.

I'm follwing Sam Ruby's advice on Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn [2] and testing what
comes through as I copy-n- paste.

I'm using FireFox verion 1.0 [3] under Linux for testing; I've yet to use
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (which should prove to be dreadful and amusing
at the same time).

So I'm copy-n-pasting the following from my last entry [4]:

> Γªρßåγ€
> 
> It really bugs me
> 

“Building character [5]”

And what I get back is:

> text is WINDOWS-1252
> 
> 00000000: 0D 0A 26 23 39 31 35 3B AA 26 23 39 36 31 3B DF ..Γ.ρ.
> 00000010: E5 26 23 39 34 37 3B 80 0D 0A 0D 0A 49 74 20 72 .γ.....It r
> 00000020: 65 61 6C 6C 79 20 62 75 67 73 20 6D 65          eally bugs me
> 
> Γªρßåγ€
> 
> It really bugs me
> 

What the XXXX [6]?

Not only is Firefox, under Linux, sending input to the test form as WINDOWS-
1252 **but** it's also sending me HTML (HyperText Markup Language) entities
in numeric form! They're the correct numeric entities for the characters in
question, but … what the XXXX?

To say I wasn't expecting this is a bit of an understatement.

Well, back to hacking.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/04.1
[2] http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/04/14/i18n.html
[3] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/04.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/04.1
[6] http://thedailywtf.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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