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Re: ascii char 26

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From	bob <bob@coolgroups.com>
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Subject	Re: ascii char 26
Date	Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:30:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Loading UTF-8 data into a WebView doesn't work right.  Please see this
thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/c056cc101c8676e5?hl=en

Thanks.



On Sep 11, 9:25 pm, Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...@verizon.invalid> wrote:
> On 9/11/2011 9:12 PM, bob wrote:
>
> > You're right.  I messed up, and it was the em dash.  It turned into 26
> > after going thru 'b = html.getBytes("US-ASCII");'
>
> > Here's the new code:
>
> Hardcoding a list of tables is generally not a good thing; in
> particular, I don't think it's going to solve your problems. I have seen
> sites that use the Unicode ff and fi ligatures instead of relying on
> fonts to automatically pick up on that as well.
>
> If I may ask, why do you need to convert the string to US-ASCII as
> opposed to UTF-8? That is going to cause major issues for the ~90% of
> the world that doesn't speak English as their main language.
>
> > Also, I'm on Android 2.1, so import java.text.Normalizer; doesn't
> > work.
>
> It shouldn't be that hard to find other Java Unicode normalization
> libraries out there.
>
> --
> Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
> tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 14:33 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-11 17:48 -0400
  Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 16:52 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:28 -0400
    Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-11 19:12 -0700
      Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 21:25 -0500
        Re: ascii char 26 bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-09-12 01:30 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-11 15:25 -0700
  Re: ascii char 26 Bent C Dalager <bcd@pvv.ntnu.no> - 2011-09-11 23:18 +0000
    Re: ascii char 26 Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-09-11 18:37 -0500
    Re: ascii char 26 Retahiv Oopsiscame <roopsisc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-11 16:53 -0700
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