Hi.
Chris Biggs wrote:
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When these files are saved as "ANSI" (using Notepad)
(or rather in this case, as UTF-8)
Tips :
1) *don't use Notepad to edit HTML pages*. Use a real editor, properly
aware of character sets and encodings, and which will highlight
incorrect UTF-8 characters.
Notepad has a big problem when saving UTF-8 encoded files : it writes a
"BOM" at the beginning of the file, which is not only totally
unnecessary for UTF-8, but also confuses other programs.
A BOM is a sequence of 2 or 3 bytes, meant in some cases to indicate the
"byte order" of the file that follows.
For UTF-8, there is only one valid byte order, so the BOM is not
necessary and could/should be ignored.
However, when such a file with a BOM prefix is being included by some
software in the middle of another file (as you do with SSI), it usually
causes the kind of problem you are seeing : "bizarre" characters in the
middle.
2) use a proper <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" /> in the <head> section of your html files. That should
tell the browser what the encoding of the page is.
3) But this is really only a substitute for the real standard-conformant
way of indicating the encoding to the browser : the webserver should
send, with each html page, a HTTP header like :
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Unfortunately, MS's IE (all versions and sub-versions) have a long
history of ignoring or misinterpreting this part of the HTTP RFC, and
deciding themselves what content the document has.
This is *wrong*, but unfortunately also, in the real world IE is much
used, so one has to learn to work around this.
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