Old threads containing £ signs

[DaveS]

Not a serious issue, but I couldn't help noticing that posts containing £ or € symbols submitted before the great changeover appear to have spurious characters added to them. Previewing this shows that new posts are unaffected.

(Ducks and runs for cover...)

[Nick]

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Not a serious issue

Correct.

I can tell you that is probably due to the new system using UTF8 character encoding while the old one used ISO 8059.

Did that help??

[DaveS]

Not a lot.

But OTOH, and this is definitely not my field, if ISO stands for International Standards Organisation, then isn't a move away from an international standard a bit, ah, retrogressive?

[Silkie]

Ha! ISO may be international but UTF is universal. (Probably - or possibly not.)

[Nick]

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But OTOH, and this is definitely not my field, if ISO stands for International Standards Organisation, then isn't a move away from an international standard a bit, ah, retrogressive?

Using one of the ISO standards confines you to a specific keyboard character set.

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. For these reasons, it is steadily becoming the preferred encoding for e-mail and web pages.

I don't suppose this helps much . . .

[DaveS]

Jings, the things ye learn! This is fair educational....

[Rowana]

Jings, the things ye learn! This is fair educational....

Aye, an' some days we nivver learn a thing