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Subject:Re: Accidental à in html ... how? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:27:53 -0800
The default charset in OS X is UTF-8. The proprietary charset was in
OS 9 and earlier releases.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> I don't use Mac. The confusion here seems to be from that Mac's proprietary
> charset returns à for 174 while in Unicode that number is the registration
> symbol. Can Mac be set to use Unicode only?
> On 12/13/2015 1:38 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> That's what Unicode is for.
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