Re: [ILUG] XML & UTF Encoding

From: Matthew French (mfrench42 at domain yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu 25 Apr 2002 - 14:11:28 IST

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David Neary explained:
> I'm going on the hex values of the characters produced by the
> Mozilla editor - é - which matches e and prints it in the
> browsers here. That may be different to 0xc3a9, but the ascii
> value of à is c3, and © is a9.

You are correct - 0xC3A9 is the UTF-8 encoded version the Unicode character
0xE9.

The following link has a nice explanation on how to do the conversion:
http://cuisung.unige.ch/prod/utf-8.7.html

Yippee. Another way to confuse lesser mortals. Can we say job security? :)

- Matthew

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