rocknbil
msg:3883099 | 2:30 pm on Apr 1, 2009 (gmt 0) |
This might help clarify it for you . . . Character encoding, entity references and UTF-8 [webmasterworld.com]
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bernk
msg:3886555 | 6:15 pm on Apr 6, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the resource, however after reading it...and the comments, and some other referenced threads, I'm still having the same problem.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="no" lang="no"><head>
<title>An XHTML 1.0 Strict standard template</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
</head> <body> <p>Flygande bäckasiner söka strax hwila på mjuka tuvor.</p> </body>
</html>
That file is saved as UTF-8, and the accented characters are not displaying properly. Is it possible that the server is forcing everything to display as ISO-8859-1?
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rocknbil
msg:3887234 | 3:41 pm on Apr 7, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I can't answer that question, it's outside my arena. Hopefully someone will . . . my first guess is to say yes, as when I've encountered this I had my admin tweak something on the server and it went away. You could try installing the FireFox extension Live HTTP Headers, and see what it says. For this site, I notice Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 And your characters are rendering fine here, so it appears this could be the case.
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bernk
msg:3887246 | 3:57 pm on Apr 7, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out using Live Headers...
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bernk
msg:3887311 | 5:35 pm on Apr 7, 2009 (gmt 0) |
The problem was indeed caused by the server having a default charset of ISO-8859-1. It was easily rectified using an .htaccess file with the following line:
AddDefaultCharset OFF
I hope this helps someone in the future. I should also point out that you should have the charset specified in each of your files if you are going to use AddDefaultCharset OFF. If you do not have a charset specified in each file you can use UTF-8 (or any other charset) instead of OFF.
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