On 04/22/2008 07:30 PM, Albe Laurenz wrote: > Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: >>>> I sometimes have a problem with conversion of encodings eg from UTF-8 >>>> tio ShiftJIS: >>>> >>>> ERROR: character 0xf0a0aeb7 of encoding "UTF8" has no >>>> equivalent in "SJIS" >>>> >>>> I have no idea what character this is, I cannot view it in my >>>> browser, etc. >>> It translates to Unicode 10BB7, which is not defined. >>> I guess that is not intended; can you guess what the character(s) should be? >> to be honest no idea. its some chinese character, I have no idea how the >> user input this, because this is a japanese page. >> >> I actually found the carachter, but only my Mac OS X can show it. It >> looks similar to a japanese character used for a name, but how the >> chinese one got selected is a mystery to me ... > > Are you sure that your Mac OS X computer interprets the character as > UTF-8? That I cannot be sure, I just searched through a page that has a complete list. OS X can render it, Linux cannot, I have not tried windows. -- [ Clemens Schwaighofer -----=====:::::~ ] [ IT Engineer/Manager, TEQUILA\ Japan IT Group ] [ 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN ] [ Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703 Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343 ] [ http://www.tequila.co.jp ]