Thanks Rocco & Nick. I guess it will take a while for all those old MSWindows-designed websites to catch on to an unbranded international standard. The bad-utf tag will certainly help a lot & I look forward to seeing how good the guesswork is (or will be after a while).
Noach --- In [email protected], Rocco Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2006, at 09:12, noachstern wrote: > > > Anyone had a problem like this? > > > > I've lots of bookmarks that use utf-8 encoding in the titles. After > > installing the Firefox del.icio.us extension, the sidebar ignores the > > encoding and displays garbage in the titles. I can't find anywhere to > > tell it to behave. > > Del.icio.us supports UTF-8. A lot of people have this problem > because del.icio.us doesn't reject your imported bookmarks if they > are not legal UTF-8. The result is garbage on your screen. > > You can easily verify this by opening your bookmarks.html file (or > its equivalent) in your browser and ensuring that your browser is set > to UTF-8 (Firefox: View > Character Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8)). If > your bookmarks don't display correctly, then they aren't legal UTF-8. > > You can determine which encoding they really are by changing the > Character Encoding until your bookmarks look correct. This should > work in del.icio.us as well as your bookmarks.html file. > > The Firefox extension uses del.icio.us' import feature behind the > scenes, which is why this is all relevant. > > In the future, del.icio.us will attempt to translate your bookmarks > to UTF-8. This is not precise. It involves some measure of > guesswork. As a result, you may still have broken bookmarks if we > guess incorrectly. On a positive note, we'll detect many of the > poorer guesses and tag your bookmarks "system:badutf8". This way you > can easily find the broken ones and fix them. > > -- > Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
