I've got a question about HTML that I hope someone can help me with.
When html contains native encoding of
text, the <tags> are in ascii, it appears. How does a program
(that wants to translate the native stuff to another encoding) find
the native encoding stuff amidst the tags? I.e. it looked like
the HTML was like:
<b><anothertag>XXYYZZ
where XX, YY, and ZZ were 2-byte quantities, ie. some wide character
encoding. Now the real question - how does it know where the encoding
starts? E.g. if the HTML contained:
<b><anothertag> XXYYZZ
would the extra space after the end of the tag mean that the first
"wide" character in that input would be " X" (and the second "XY")?
It's not clear how a conversion program (that needs to skip the tags
(which appear to always be in ascii)) and convert the text) can find
the text.
Chuck Wrobel
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