brizrobbo
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Apr 28, 2009, 11:42 PM
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Help with weird windows 1252 character
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Hi Folks,
I'm just going through a process of writing a routine that will automatically replace any "known" windows 1252 characters with an equivalent HTML encoded character (as I have specified myself). I thought I had it nailed, until I parsed all of our existing HTML pages (thousands, spanning 10 years of development). Then I came across this weird phenomena where I have this character (it "seems" like it is an e acute, but I don't really know what it is!).
On our Sun box, it shows up in a putty terminal as:<h3>Communiqué</h3>
If I "vi" it, it shows up like this:
<h3>Communiqu\303\251</h3>
In my windows text editor (textpad, file encoding is utf-8), it shows up like this:
<h3>Communiqué</h3>
And if I run it through a perl script using Devel::Peek I get this information for "two" characters:
SV = PVIV(0x238efc) at 0x18ebab0
REFCNT = 2
FLAGS = (IOK,POK,pIOK,pPOK)
IV = 195
PV = 0x1909694 "195"\0
CUR = 3
LEN = 4
SV = PVIV(0x238f0c) at 0x18ebabc
REFCNT = 2
FLAGS = (IOK,POK,pIOK,pPOK)
IV = 169
PV = 0x190a7b4 "169"\0
CUR = 3
LEN = 4
Thats it! Two characters for what I thought was one windows-1252 e acute.
Now admitting that my character encoding knowledge is rudimentry, but I'm not understanding this at all. Is it possible to get one character represented by two characters? What am I missing?
Any pointers are gratefully appreciated.
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