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From: "Caldarale, Charles R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:01 AM
Subject: RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem
From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency
amounts problem
http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/test/test.htm
What do you see in this test page?
Depends on which character encoding I choose to view the page in. For the
declared UTF-8, FF3 shows the invalid hex value at that spot in your page.
If I override that with say ISO-8859-15, the R in a circle appears. Note
that no font is involved here, just the encoding declaration.
You need to get over this fixation with fonts - they have absolutely nothing
to do with this issue. A font is just a graphical description of how to
draw one or more code points on an output device, based on the font
designer's take on what each code point should look like. It's the
character encoding that tells the message recipient what code point to
generate for a given bit pattern; only after the code point is determined
does any font get involved to create the visible symbol.
This is a great site to get lost in for a few days:
http://www.unicode.org/
- Chuck
Yes, I do that, mix terminology....
But can I just get your opinion on this...
If this locale stuff is in fact defaulting to an ISO char set that can do
these symbols... and say you where making a non english page, say
Japanese... do you think that its possible to use it?
I've actually now seen examples on the web that are doing it Wil's way, they
using the getCurrencyInstance to make the currency symbols.
And it is the most natural thing in the world for a coder to want to do...
the functions are synonymous with internationalization.
Its probably in the Java manaul...
But I'm thinking its a US/Eng only methodology... when applied to a web
page.
Do you think using getCurrencyInstance is generalizable in other languages?
When you say.... "If I override that with say ISO-8859-15", is that the
whole page you talking about, or it possible to have different character
encoding sections in a web page.... thats another area thats confusing me
now, because if I do look at that test page in a MS tool... it displays
correctly with mixed encodings?
You see... people are saying in a well designed web page... its a
suggestion, I get that.
But when you choose a font in a text editor like Swing or Word, you are also
picking some character set... and thats whats been injected into the page as
its been formed... Or in a MS localization panel, if you choose you want
Verdana as a default font... these systems dont throw character sets at
users, it just picks one in the background... thus my analogy... and its the
cross over between these systems thats got me confused ;)
I screw up terminology... ok we all know that.... but
Does Wil need to worry about the way he is doing it?... thats all I'm
asking... I think so...
Thanks...
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