Re: [GENERAL] UTF-8 -> ISO8859-1 conversion problem

2004-10-30 Thread Cott Lang
Thanks for the detailed reply, you've confirmed what I suspected. :) I guess I have some work to do! On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:19, J. Michael Crawford wrote: >In my experience, there are just some characters that don't want to be > converted, even if they appear to be part of the normal 8-bi

Re: [GENERAL] UTF-8 -> ISO8859-1 conversion problem

2004-10-29 Thread Ian Pilcher
Cott Lang wrote: ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00ef to ISO8859-1 Running 7.4.5, I frequently get this error, and ONLY on this particular character despite seeing quite a bit of 8 bit. I don't really follow why it can't be converted, it's the same character (239) in both character sets.

Re: [GENERAL] UTF-8 -> ISO8859-1 conversion problem

2004-10-29 Thread J. Michael Crawford
Correction: Four things that need to be done, THREE if you're not serving up html. Sorry for the editing error. - Mike At 01:19 PM 10/29/2004, J. Michael Crawford wrote: In my experience, there are just some characters that don't want to be converted, even if they appear to be part

Re: [GENERAL] UTF-8 -> ISO8859-1 conversion problem

2004-10-29 Thread J. Michael Crawford
In my experience, there are just some characters that don't want to be converted, even if they appear to be part of the normal 8-bit character system. We went to Unicode databases to hold our Latin1 characters because of this. There was even a case where the client was cutting and pasting a

[GENERAL] UTF-8 -> ISO8859-1 conversion problem

2004-10-29 Thread Cott Lang
ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00ef to ISO8859-1 Running 7.4.5, I frequently get this error, and ONLY on this particular character despite seeing quite a bit of 8 bit. I don't really follow why it can't be converted, it's the same character (239) in both character sets. Databases are i