What are the strange characters? You could be looking at the optional UTF-8 'magic header'.. a short character sequence that marks the file as being UTF-8.
- Chris. -----Original Message----- From: Andoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:18 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 and really screwed up webpages. Still does not seem to be working just right. The browser recognises that the pages is UTF8 but it puts some strange characters in the top-left corner of the screen. How can I stop this happening? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:38 PM Subject: Re: UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 and really screwed up webpages. I think they're supposed to be, but I have found that the META tags sometimes don't seem to work, whereas the JSP directive seems to be more reliable. "Andoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/19/02 08:37 AM Please respond to "Tomcat Users List" To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 and really screwed up webpages. Are the HTML meta tags and the JSP tags interchangeable? i.e. are they the same thing? Andoni. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Kiszka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:45 PM Subject: RE: UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 and really screwed up webpages. It is perfectly right. You must take care not to have page directive with contentType attribute in any included pages. If you have only one such an entry per page then everything is alright. I suggest to start with simple pages and then move to sophisticated ones. Bogdan -----Original Message----- From: Andoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:17 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 and really screwed up webpages. It tells me I can't have two "contentType" entries when I put in the JSP tag!! Andoni. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: Re: UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 and really screwed up webpages. > I am having this problem aswell. > > the pages I produce are coming up with all sorts of Japanese characters etc. > in them. > I have already inserted the Meta tags and converted the files using the > saveAs / UTF8 feature on my editor. > > Now I am going to add the <%@ page contentType = "text/html;charset=UTF-8" > %> > tag suggested by Bogdan below, is there anything else I must do? > > Andoni. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email or by telephone (collect), so that the sender's address records can be corrected. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>