Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:06:42 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML Message-ID: <4F9278A2.1020301@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <4F9253D7.7010609@locolomo.org> References: <20120421055823.GA6788@tinyCurrent> <4F9253D7.7010609@locolomo.org>
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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. 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 ;) Cheers, Erik -- M: +34 666 334 818 T: +34 915 211 157
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