Re: Problem with national characters in XHTML

[Lennart Borgman]

Piet van Oostrum wrote:

> > > > > > Mathias Dahl <address@hidden> (MD) wrote:
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> > MD> I might be wrong here, but doesn't UTF-8 encode all characters in
> > MD> Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) exactly as they are *in* Latin-1 encoding?
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> No. Iso 8859-1 uses 1 byte for all characters, while UTF-8 uses two bytes
> for those characters that are in iso-8859-1. What you probably mean is that
> the Unicode value (code point) for each iso-8859-1 character is the same as
> its encoding in iso-8859-1.
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This is not easy. What you say make it even more interesting why C-q 3 4 
4 RET is stored as 2276 (or what it was) in the XHTML files. How can 
that be? (For the context see my earlier mails.)