From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T00:11:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How does one transform UTF-8 encoded characters to ASCII?

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Sorry to just into this thread but I have the exact opposite problem.
Open Office uses utf8 and I need to be able to copy text from the OO
document into a web form.  Is this possible without saving the document
as a plain text file first?

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 00:03 +0900, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> On 5/24/06, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
> > I'm a little embarrassed about asking this, but here goes...
> >
> > I am using HTMLEntities.decode_entities on a string of HTML.
> >
> > I don't understand how to make my text, which now contains UTF-8
> > characters, display correctly in say, Notepad.  All of the entities are
> > preceded by the character A-circumflex.  My guess is that Notepad
> > doesn't know how to handle UTF-8, for example.
> 
> At least on Windows XP the notepad can handle various encodings. The
> problem is convincing it to use the right encoding. There is no
> obvoius way.
> One way that might work:
> Save a text as utf-8 in notepad. Notepad inserts a mark at the
> beginning of the text. You can then copy the mark to the beginning of
> any of your texts and it would be readable in notepad. But it would no
> longer parse as a valid HTML, ruby, or whatever.
> 
> Or just drop notepad and use a text editor.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Michal

Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com

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