Re: [HACKERS] SOLUTION: Insert a Euro symbol as UTF-8 from a latin1 charset.

2003-06-16 Thread Ian Barwick
On Friday 13 June 2003 17:28, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > This is my solution / bug report / RFC cross-posted from [GENERAL] > regarding insertion of hexadecimal characters from the command line. > --- > > Okay. I have NO IDEA why this works. If someone could en

Re: [HACKERS] SOLUTION: Insert a Euro symbol as UTF-8 from a latin1 charset.

2003-06-13 Thread Ian Barwick
On Friday 13 June 2003 17:28, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > This is my solution / bug report / RFC cross-posted from [GENERAL] > regarding insertion of hexadecimal characters from the command line. > --- > > Okay. I have NO IDEA why this works. If someone could en

Re: [HACKERS] SOLUTION: Insert a Euro symbol as UTF-8 from a latin1 charset.

2003-06-13 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:28:36AM -0400, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > > The Euro symbol is unicode value 0x20AC. UTF-8 encoding is a way of representing > most unicode characters in two bytes, and most latin characters in one byte. More precisely, UTF-8 encodes ASCII characters in one byte.

[HACKERS] SOLUTION: Insert a Euro symbol as UTF-8 from a latin1 charset.

2003-06-13 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
This is my solution / bug report / RFC cross-posted from [GENERAL] regarding insertion of hexadecimal characters from the command line. --- Okay. I have NO IDEA why this works. If someone could enlighten me as to the math involved I'd appreciate it. First, a li