On Monday 07 Sep 2009 Peter Lewis sent:
> On Sunday 06 Sep 2009 Anne Wilson sent:> > In KMail I have problems with accented characters, resulting in this like> > L�ck. I assume this is a problem of character encoding. There doesn't> > seem to be anywhere in systemsettings that I can check and possibly alter> > that. Any suggestions?>> I find this sort of behaviour on several websites as viewed in Firefox,> often where a British pound sign should be. When I view the source in a> tool to shows the hexadecimal value of the characters (okteta for example)> I find that they are all group values greater than 0x7f, that is beyond the> encoding scope of most character sets.> I just assumed that the funny negative question mark is a way of saying> "what the heck".>> The characters that you sent were 0x4c 0xef 0xbf 0xbd 0x63 0x6b so I am not> surprised that nothing much could be done with it.
May I enlarge on my rather hasty post of last night.
The sequence 0xef 0xbf 0xbd is the utf-8 encoding application's way of saying that it recognised a character that did not fit in the legal utf-8 character space.
I have found two pages in Wikipedia that describe it better than I can:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 will show the utf-8 encoding technique.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_character_planes#Basic_Multilingual_Plane is the mapping of character sets onto the unicode number plane.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Specials is the key page that describes what can go wrong to give you the "what the heck?".
I hope that this clears up everything and for haters of the big red-mondster the smug feeling that it was all caused by a dirty "quick fix" colliding with a well thought out solution!
-- Kind regards,Peter Lewis
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