From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 1998 09:10:53 -0700
From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: No subject
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> When I see the codes in rdhtml.c, I found that
> the latin2utf() assumes the runes are latines, not
> more large, say three byte utfs such as Japanese.

I don't think this code makes any assumptions
about the Runes.  It just translates incoming
latin1 text into utf.

> Are there any special purpose to use this coding?

I wrote mothra, and worked on it until I left Bell
Labs two years ago.

I just assumed that since the html standard specifies
that the character set is latin1, I ought to convert
latin1 to utf on input.  Obviously if you prefer to
read JIS, you can change latin2utf appropriately.


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