[thelist] Character Encoding Mismatch
rudy
r937 at interlog.com
Sat Oct 12 19:24:00 CDT 2002
> CFMX outputs utf-8 by default
nice to know -- what about earlier versions?
good of macromedia to be thinking on our behalf, eh
they're even sometimes right
> You can put this at the top of your Application.cfm file,
> to change the output to ISO-8859-1
>
> <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
>
> then you can leave your meta tag alone.
i don't get it
does the cfcontent create a meta tag? or some kind of http header?
if so, it seems kind of superfluous to code a meta tag that says the same
thing
however, please note this is an important question, because the charset is
mandatory for w3c validation
if i code one, and use cfcontent, will i get two?
(yeah, i know i can test this myself, but maybe you can save me the agro)
> this is of course, if your site uses ISO-8859-1 and not utf-8....
okay, i'll bite, and my questions aren't just directed at you, morgan
what's the diff, and why would i want to use utf-8?
the w3c says i should be using ISO 10646
what's browser support for utf-8 like? i've had no problems with ISO 8859
and here's a real challenge --
every time i go visit aardvark's article http://evolt.org/entities my
browser (ie5) pops up an alert that says
Internet Explorer Install On Demand
To display this page correctly you need to download
and install the following components:
Uniscribe
Download size: 126K
and yet the meta tag in that article is charset=iso-8859-1
i even ran that page through rex swain's http viewer, and i don't see any
http header that states character sets -- is there even such a thing?
so what's up with that alert? is ie5 detecting the use of a unicode entity
in the body of the article (apparently, there are a few <grin>)?
what should i do so that i do not foist this alert on my users?
rudy
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