[UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long
as you remember to put a meta http-equiv=content-type
content=text/html; charset=utf-8 in your page's head.
Actually, what you should be doing is getting the server to send the
right content-type header. Meta elements are
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dejan Kozina
Sent: 22 November 2004 01:44
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using
special characters
Julin Landerreche wrote:
1) Question: Is there a way to use special characters
directly
Manuel Gonzlez Noriega wrote:
[UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long
as you remember to put a meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8" in your page's head.
Actually, what you should be doing is getting the
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel
González Noriega
Sent: 22 November 2004 09:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using
special characters
[UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:24 -, Richard Ishida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hola Manuel, Dejan,
There are pros and cons to using the HTTP header to declare the encoding.
At the W3C we recommend that you always declare encoding inside the
document, whether or not you use the HTTP header.
Julin Landerreche wrote:
1) Question: Is there a way to use special characters directly in the
code?
Two ways, actually, both requiring the pages being displayed as utf-8.
One is writing the document with an editor capable of saving text as
utf-8 (Unired is the one I like -
Hi Julin,
We have issues in New Zealand with words in Mori. In government we
are required to use macrons to indicate a long vowel sound in Mori
words. The way we do it is to use UTF-8 as the document character set
encoded in 7-bit ASCII. More info is available here:
Hi Julin,
I think it's even a difficult article for techies, because there's
little good advice. So here's some good advice,
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
"In this article I'll fill you in on exactly
what every working
programmer
should know. All that stuff about