Re: [offtopic] Whatever Igor wants to call this
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net
Jun 19, 2001
On 20 Jun 2001, at 2:17, Igor Kachan wrote:
> Kat, this is not fonts or code pages
> question. %/'%/#o symbols are stable in
> any modern and almost all the old code pages,
> that I know, and in practice, there is no usual
> *recoding* procedures to change them in the text,
> or usual fonts with another symbols instead
> of these ones.
So these are the normal %xx encoding, eh? I hadn't seen them used like
this before.
> I see these symbols on my IE without any
> transformations on all available code pages,
> as expected, both in .txt and .htm formats.
>
> But it is a question of URL-*encoding*
> and *decoding* for CGI usage.
>
> I don't know URL/CGI stuff well enough.
> But for these CGI manipulations, % is a
> special command symbol to start the
> decoding of an URL string.
Yes, i've seen them, and used them, in urls, and in table forms and menus in
html, but not for printable chars in the words themselves, in that way. Oh
well, another day goes by, and i learn something else! Thanks, Igor. 
Kat
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