Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:13:13 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML Message-ID: <20120421131313.GA9502@tinyCurrent> In-Reply-To: <4F9278A2.1020301@locolomo.org> References: <20120421055823.GA6788@tinyCurrent> <4F9253D7.7010609@locolomo.org> <4F9278A2.1020301@locolomo.org>
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El día Saturday, April 21, 2012 a las 11:06:42AM +0200, Erik Nørgaard escribió: > On 21/04/2012 08:29, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > > Browsers understand UTF-8 perfectly, simply add <meta charset="utf-8" /> > > to the html header. > > Obviously I can't know what your project is, but you'll save yourself > heaps of problems sticking to UTF-8, in particular if you plan on > implementing any search functionality or have users submit content. > Enforce and stick to UTF-8. Well, it is no 'project'. I'm writing a diary of what's going on in my life. And still doing it in ISO 8859-1 environment, but in HTML to include pictures etc. ISO 8859-1 is still fine for it because I do it in Spanish for some reasons, and ISO 8859-1 have enough chars, even the tilded ones like áíóñ... but sometimes I need to include a phrase in another language, Russian or Greek, or whatever (see the other mail). And so it is nice to translate this to HTML encodings in ASCII. That's all. > When characters show up wrong in the users browser it's usually because > the browser is set to use a non-UTF-8 charset by default such as > windows-1252, the web server sends the charset=ascii in the http header > and there is no or incorrect meta tag to resolve the problem. Non UTF-8 > charsets are a leftover from last millenia that we sometimes still choke > on .. sorry the rant ;) We all here are leftover from last millenia. :-) matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11 | UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2 | FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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