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On Tuesday 02 May 2006 21:57, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> Hello. |
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> |
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> On my system, I've got some files, in which "special characters" |
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> (eg. German umlaute, like äöü or ß) are encoded in a rather |
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> strange way. |
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> Eg.: |
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> [2005-04-14 20-17-09] (0766) Sandra mit Cassandra auf Arm, |
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> Klinikum Barmen, Tag 23 - Schwarz-Wei�:009f.jpg |
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> |
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> "Schwarz-Wei�:009f" should read "Schwarz-Weiß". |
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> What I don't understand is, why the "ß" has been (wrongly) |
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> encoded as �:009f. |
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> Why is that happening? |
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Probably something with UTF-6. From gucharmap: |
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ß |
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U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S |
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General Character Properties |
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Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase |
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Various Useful Representations |
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UTF-8: 0xC3 0x9F |
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Octal escaped UTF-8: \303\237 |
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Decimal entity reference: ß |
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Annotations and Cross References |
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Alias names: |
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• Eszett |
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Notes: |
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• German |
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• uppercase is "SS" |
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• in origin a ligature of U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S and |
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U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S |
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See also: |
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• U+03B2 GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA |
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Peter |
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