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in thread Convert Windows-1252 Characters to Java Unicode Notation

I didn't mean to personally insult you. If you allow me to generalize, people from the USA (and other English speaking countries, I'm sure) tend to care very little about accented characters, going so far as to ignore the possibility. Sending mail as US-ASCII, for example.

Personally, I'm very wary of requirements that could possibly change. Texts that eventually might contain accented characters, is a typical example of such a red flag.

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Re^6: Convert Windows-1252 Characters to Java Unicode Notation
by Jim (Curate) on Nov 26, 2007 at 19:46 UTC
    No offense taken. We share the same sensibilities and sensitivities with respect to non-English, Latin-script text in software and computing. As I explained, my inquiry here was the result of my wanting to take extra care to handle correctly some statistically nominal text in my data. I went to more trouble than the average American programmer would go to save the lives of a couple of euro signs. (Now I've offended somebody. :-)

    Cheers!

    Jim

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