Re: First stupid post of the year. [SOLVED]

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All of these look the same for me in Opera under Linux. Character sets
are not a browser war issue, they're a character set/font issue. Just
because a character set supports a character, doesn't mean the character
font exists.

Cheers,
Rob.


On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:29 -0500, tedd wrote:
> At 12:03 PM +0100 1/7/08, Nisse Engström wrote:
> >How does the following pages compare? The display
> >should be identical:
> >
> ><http://luden.se/test/t-1252.html>
> ><http://luden.se/test/t-utf8.html>
> 
> Nisse:
> 
> No, there is quite a difference depending upon 
> the text encoding used in my browser (Safari).
> 
> For example, using UTF-8
> 
> <http://luden.se/test/t-1252.html>
> 
> produces nothing but repeating <?>  (black diamond with question mark).
> 
> Where as:
> 
> <http://luden.se/test/t-utf8.html>
> 
> Shows all the code-points correctly.
> 
> ---
> 
> Using Western (ISO Latin 1)
> 
> http://luden.se/test/t-1252.html
> 
> is correct, but
> 
> <http://luden.se/test/t-utf8.html>
> 
> is gibberish.
> 
> 
> ---
> Using Western (Mac OS Roman)
> 
> http://luden.se/test/t-1252.html
> 
> is almost correct (it has an Apple logo).
> 
> and
> 
> <http://luden.se/test/t-utf8.html>
> 
> is gibberish.
> 
> --
> 
> So, the browser wars move on to text encoding.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
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