g1smd
msg:4494238 | 11:16 am on Sep 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Use UTF-8 encoding if you can.
Before UTF-8 was available I used various of the ISO-8859-x options, but that's no longer necessary.
I've never used any of the win-xxxx or other encodings.
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King of Bling
msg:4494376 | 4:19 pm on Sep 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Changed to:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ru">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title></title>
</head>
But still getting a string of ?'s instead of page text, titles, etc. What could I be doing wrong?
Thanks again,
John
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g1smd
msg:4494393 | 5:08 pm on Sep 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You'll also need to save the page as UTF-8 from your text editor.
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King of Bling
msg:4494400 | 5:32 pm on Sep 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
All these years, never knew about that export option. It worked. Thank you!
Is that something you'd save all html pages as?
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g1smd
msg:4494434 | 7:16 pm on Sep 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I've used UTF-8 for almost everything for at least several years. Your text editor should allow you to set it as a default.
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phranque
msg:4494618 | 7:32 am on Sep 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
sometimes you'll see that when you don't have the proper character set installed on your computer.
don't forget if you use a database all the content there should also use a consistent encoding.
I would add a language attribute to your <html> tag.
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King of Bling
msg:4494681 | 10:50 am on Sep 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Ahhh, I've heard that. Does this look like the proper syntax?
html lang="ru"
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phranque
msg:4494703 | 11:37 am on Sep 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
yes that looks correct (with angle brackets pre/appended, of course)
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lucy24
msg:4494870 | 8:20 pm on Sep 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| sometimes you'll see that when you don't have the proper character set installed on your computer. |
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If your computer doesn't have a single font with Cyrillic characters [alanwood.net], you need a new computer ;) The problem is far more likely to be an elderly browser that doesn't do Font Substitution so you have to change fonts manually. If it's a very old browser, it can't even read the <charset> declaration. But that's oooold. (Like, say, MSIE5, my Gold Standard for elderly browsers.)
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