Recently, Pete Zaitcev wrote in passing :

Now if only someone designed a UTF-8 locale which did not screwthe ordering files in ls output...

What he said. I've come to realize that what I want what I'll call the' C.UTF-8 ' locale: all of the old-fashioned Unix non-locale behavior,but with non-ASCII characters encoded in UTF-8. I don't mind UTF-8 toomuch and it's clearly the

Presented without comment, the 18 spaces of Unicode .

(From Sam Ruby .)

I started with a simple question that was vaguely orbiting in the backof my mind: are HTML numeric character entities always in Unicode,regardless of the character set of the HTML web page? The answer isyes, and that I was asking a misleading question.

Despite being called 'charset' in HTTP headers and META declarations,what you are declaring is actually the web page's character encoding,not its character set. HTML is specified as always being in the Unicodecharacter set, although the encoding of characters