If that's what my web server sends out, then why isn't everyone else seeing the characters the way I do, as Unicode?
Mary -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 7:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Web pages - display of special characters On Fri, 1 May 2009 19:18:41 -0400, "M. Brenzel" <brenze...@roadrunner.com> wrote: >What really bothers me is that the encoding selection doesn't appear to be a >permanent setting that I can make in IE 8. I have Auto-select on but it's >picking Unicode and for the pages with the special characters, it needs to >be Western European. If I change it, close IE and then go back to the same >page, it's back to Unicode. Mary: I took a look at the headers that were being returned by your web server... HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 23:35:52 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Last-Modified: Fri, 01 May 2009 19:05:47 GMT ETag: "e44e3d-1eb7-8009d8c0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 7863 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 I think IE sees UTF-8 (unicode) and ignores the encoding in your META tag. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537500(VS.85).aspx ... "By default, Internet Explorer uses the character set specified in the HTTP content type returned by the server to determine this translation. If this parameter is not given, Internet Explorer uses the character set specified by the meta element in the document. It uses the user's preferences if no meta element is specified." I believe one way to fix this is with .htaccess. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset#answer This is probably an issue you want to take up with your ISP. P.S. I used a little free program called WebBug from Aman Software to view the HTTP response from your web server. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
