Solving the UTF-8 problem

[CE Whitehead]

Doug Ewell dewell  at roadrunner.com
wrote:
>CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> wrote:
>
>>Hi, I am also for utf-8 so long as we link to the appropriate 
>>fonts/viewers (for libraries).
>
>I'm still not convinced that this is our responsibility.  I can try looking 
>for some stable and informative links -- Alan Wood's outstanding pages at 
>http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ leap to mind -- but as we said before, 
>this is unlikely to be of much use to a library user who isn't allowed to 
>install fonts or software.
>
>(I am still willing to bet that CE's library machine has Internet Explorer 
>4.0 or later, and can thus view a local UTF-8 file.)


You are right it has IE 4.0 or later and an up-to-date Mozilla browser too 
but it does not have the fonts or any way for me to download!
>
Here is the view:


"<p>The title in Chinese is <span lang="zh-Hans" 
xml:lang="zh-Hans">&#20013;&#22269;&#31185;&#23398;&#38498;&#25991;&#29486;&#24773;&#25253;&#20013;&#24515;</span>.</p>"

(Maybe the characters will come out in your email but they look like ??? in 
my browser; I need to take an image; no decent camera here)
So just make sure to link to the fonts, viewers, etc. when you put up the 
utf-8 version
and keep an ansi or ascii version unofficially.

--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com

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