[Zope-dev] problems with accented characters - need advice

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Toby Dickenson  <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 8:44 pm, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The reason why it is still there is that a change should work for
>>>all languages and not only western ones. This poses the question
>>>how the byte string representing the id your should be URL quoted.
>>
>>There is an RFC, I forget which one, which specifies utf8.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure about that, last time I digged I found that it was
> explicitely said in the RFCs that no encoding was specified and that it
> was up to the application to decide what to use.
> 
> Florent
> 

I came across a nice site regarding UTF-8 and unicode, perhaps this helps:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html


cheers,
oliver