[TYPO3-dev] UTF8 problem when parsing XML data...

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Wat is "plain Unicode value"? Unicode is a collection of characters
> divided into groups ("planes" IIRC). These characters can be
> represented in a number of ways. In the example there was an 'entity'
> é. This is not a unicode value, but a numerical representation
> of a character. 233 is in Latin-1 (often encoded in ISO-8859-1) an 'e
> with accent aigu'.

You answered yourself :) There are Unicode characters and there are
representations for them. é refers to the Unicode character with
code 233. And it is represented in utf-8 as 0xC3 0xA9. Entities always 
show character number, they are independent of representation.

Dmitry.
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