[ILUG] PHP plus Celtic languages

[Brian Foster]

  | From: kevin <kevin at cybercolloids.net>
  | Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:21:50 +0100
  |[ ... ]
  | Cornish uses some accents including t-cedilla in words such as
  | 
  |  conveţhaz - Verb, to understand
  | 
  | I can write this using codes in UTF-8 like conve&#355;haz  [ ... ]

 uh, not exactly.  “&#355;” does not (cannot)
 represent literal UTF-8 per se.  (it _is_ the
 UCS codepoint value for U+0163, which is
 “LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA”, which
 apparently is the character you want.)

 I cannot recall if the “&#<dec>;” and “&#X<hex>;”
 HTML/XML entities specify UCS codepoints (i.e.,
 independent of the document's charset/encoding),
 or character values specific to the document's
 encoding.

 I presume yer document effectively specifies
 its encoding is UTF-8, in which case my bad
 memory matters less than usual:  the 163 hex
 (355 decimal) UCS value is turned into the
 correct UTF-8 byte sequence (which is the
 two hex bytes C5 A3).

pedantically cheers!
	-blf-
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