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Re: Html entities... converting them e.g. unicode...

Subject:Re: Html entities... converting them e.g. unicode...
Posted by:"JEM" (.john.at.compnet101.com.)
Date:Tue, 23 May 2006 07:14:10

"dk_sz" <dk_sz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well... I have been researching...
>
> So suppose I have found e.g. following entities in some HTML:
>
>    ,(CharVal: 219; CodeDec: '&#219;'; CodeName: '&Ucirc;')
>    ,(CharVal: 220; CodeDec: '&#220;'; CodeName: '&Uuml;')
>
> If I am using MBCS on western Windows...
> I can assume a one byte value of  219...
>
> But what if I wanted to convert to a WideString character..?
> (and wasn't using a MBCS / western Windows OS that...)
> Well, just something I begun puzzling about... I have not
> been able to find anything useful about this topic on the net...?
> I had kinda thought there would be some kind of tables or something?

Actually, there's a lot on the net regarding this issue.

Here's one to start with..

http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html

Google with "unicode Latin-1 entities"

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