It's even worse than I expected [1].
Or funnier, depending upon your viewpoint.
I'm follwing Sam Ruby's advice on Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn [2] and testing what comes through as I copy-n- paste.
I'm using FireFox verion 1.0 [3] under Linux for testing; I've yet to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (which should prove to be dreadful and amusing at the same time).
So I'm copy-n-pasting the following from my last entry [4]:
Γªρßåγ€
It really bugs me
“Building character [5]”
And what I get back is:
text is WINDOWS-1252
>
```
00000000: 0D 0A 26 23 39 31 35 3B AA 26 23 39 36 31 3B DF ..Γ.ρ.
00000010: E5 26 23 39 34 37 3B 80 0D 0A 0D 0A 49 74 20 72 .γ.....It r
00000020: 65 61 6C 6C 79 20 62 75 67 73 20 6D 65 eally bugs me
```
Γªρßåγ€
It really bugs me
What the XXXX [6]?
Not only is Firefox, under Linux, sending input to the test form as WINDOWS-1252 **but** it's also sending me HTML (HyperText Markup Language) entities in numeric form! They're the correct numeric entities for the characters in question, but … what the XXXX?
To say I wasn't expecting this is a bit of an understatement.
Well, back to hacking.
[2] http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/04/14/i18n.html