I'm developing a site for multiple language support.
Have found one strange beaviour when using the UTF-8 charset. When displaying or just pasting i.e. Romanian into an form-field (HTML-page) of type <input type="text" value="Romanian text"> then the characters are not displayed correctly. However when the same text is displayed in a field of type <textarea....>Romanian text</textarea> or field of type like <select.... > it works great. Have tried to find a reason and a workaround for about a week now but I find nothing and I do not get any respond from forums on the net regarding this either. Do you know why it is so and eventually a workaround for it or a fix. Tested this on IE 5.0 on Window(now), but are developing for use in IE 4+, Nescape 4+ and Opera 6+. Here is sample code in my HTML-page that display the Romanian text bad and good. Here is charset setting: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> This field type does not work, shows only garbage text: <input type="text" name="txtInfTitle" value="<? echo $curInfTitle; ?>" size="50"> This field type works great: <textarea rows="1" name="txtInfTitle" cols="20" wrap="OFF"><? echo $curInfTitle; ?></textarea> I have copied some romanian text from a multilingual text HTML page using UTF-8 encoding. Then I pasted that text into the two field-types described above. Textarea field shows text correct, input field type does not. Any suggestions / workaround / fix would be great. Best Tore B. Krudtaa _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
