On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Hucklesby wrote:
>>
>> FWIW - The META content-type is only relevant to pages read from
>> a local file-- for example, when someone saves your page to disk.
>
> Not true. I recently had some non-local UTF-8 files w
David Hucklesby wrote:
FWIW - The META content-type is only relevant to pages read from
a local file-- for example, when someone saves your page to disk.
Not true. I recently had some non-local UTF-8 files where some special
characters weren't displaying properly in IE6. When I added the missing
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:25:13 +0100, Barney Carroll wrote:
> Thanks for your swift responses, all.
>
>
> The validator gives me an unconditional pass after putting in Kevin's
> properly-formed
> tag:
>
> Notepad++ was really nice, but I suspected it was being a bit silly. On a Mac
> I'd use
> BBE
Barney,
One other thing you might want to check is how (mime type, character encoding)
your web server is serving the file.
If you are using a server side language then most (if not all) can send http
headers to a browser, including a content type header. In PHP, for instance,
you'd do this to
Thanks for your swift responses, all.
The validator gives me an unconditional pass after putting in Kevin's
properly-formed tag:
Notepad++ was really nice, but I suspected it was being a bit silly. On a
Mac I'd use BBEdit (loved that) but PCs seem to be short on really
head-above-the-crowd open
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Barney Carroll
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got a problem with character set encoding I'd like to rectify. I use
> UTF-8 as a matter of convenience and ideology, and don't believe it should
> be that much of a problem. My editor (Notepad++) is se
try this:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Barney Carroll
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:27 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Encoding odities
Hello all,
I've got a problem with character set encoding I'
I had this exact problem with Notepad++ as well. If you open the file in
regular notepad or another editor you can see the charactors which wind
up just before the first official characters (usually the doctype). I
never found a way around the problem but I can say that PSPad is a great
editor.
Hello all,
I've got a problem with character set encoding I'd like to rectify. I use
UTF-8 as a matter of convenience and ideology, and don't believe it should
be that much of a problem. My editor (Notepad++) is set to create new files
in UTF-8 without a byte order mark, but when I retrieve files
