German characters not correct in output webformBert Kemner wrote: > I've a problem with a Javascript form on a german website. > (http://informationservices.swets.de/web/show/id=47553) > The input of the form contains german characters. > But the output (which is generated by submitting the form) does not > display those characters (see example beneath). My first reaction to > this problem is that Unicode somehow does not translate these german > characters to Windows (Outlook). > > Vor- und Zuname:: Birgitta MÃÆÃÂhe > Firma / Institution:: ÃÆ?ffentliche BÃÆÃÂcherei Mainz
It's Outlook (or some other process upstream) that's not converting the characters correctly from UTF-8 to Windows CP1252. "Unicode" doesn't perform the translation; it;s just a character encoding standard. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
