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Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/15/04 at 07:54:24 GMT |
I think a browser needs some information
about language and the character codes, something like
html lang="en"
meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
or
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
???
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/15/04 at 08:25:09 GMT |
Oh yeah it does! I forgot all about that. Come to think of it, it was here, but it got lost somehow. It's still in the Banty Chicken Portal "<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">". I'll copy it back here. Thanks Pascal.
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/15/04 at 08:33:32 GMT |
There! Fixed already. That was the easiest one yet. 
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/15/04 at 08:42:29 GMT |
There now it only has 92 errors. They're all because all the & symbols need to be changed to & amp ; in the scripts. I had that fixed at one time, hmmm...
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/21/04 at 09:14:26 GMT |
There! Fixed already. That was the easiest one yet.
That I think fixes jotfish problem.
Can you verify jotfish ?
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/24/04 at 09:36:22 GMT |
That I think fixes jotfish problem.
Can you verify jotfish ?
Confirmed:
When I set coding to automatic and reload the page
my IE browser selects Western (ISO) and the characters
with umlaut look ok.
I can still set another coding - if I like, but that
is only until I load a new page.
Köszönöm, Jos.
(XRCE thinks this is Hungarian_UTF8, I'm inclined to agree).
I think we should make a page with all the special characters ?
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/27/04 at 14:48:48 GMT |
Now we have an interesting problem:
the LinksBack may have different coding.
Example the thread Topic: Trackbacks
http://www.sitelibrary.net/community/forum/bookmarkscats/53
lists Google Portugal with a title
"Busqueda ..." with an accent on the u, coded UTF-8
which gives
"Búsqueda en Google: Mods for WebAPP."
That gets complicated.
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Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/28/04 at 11:11:29 GMT |
Seems to be a general problem:
jotfish noted it with the BlogThis! bookmarklet
http://jotfish.blogspot.com/
5 jotfish's Web log
and
http://papilon.blogspot.com/index.html#107528562332898426
7 Papilon
with the blog button integrated in Google's toolbar
http://toolbar.google.com/
I noted similar problems with the Magic Button from
http://3apes.com
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languag code Re: Character codes for portal
Posted on 01/28/04 at 19:56:14 GMT |
I think a browser needs some information about language [...]
html lang="en"
I looked up about the language codes: Source: W3C I18N: Language taging in HTML and XML
"Language tagging in HTML and XML
Language codes can be (and should be ) used to indicate the language of text in HTML and XML documents. For HTML 4 , language codes are specified with the lang attribute. "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#adef-lang
Language information specified via the lang attribute may be used by a user agent to control rendering in a variety of ways. Some situations where author-supplied language information may be helpful include:
Assisting search engines
Assisting speech synthesizers
Helping a user agent select glyph variants for high quality typography
Helping a user agent choose a set of quotation marks
Helping a user agent make decisions about hyphenation, ligatures, and spacing
Assisting spell checkers and grammar checkers
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt
The information in the subtag may for instance be:
- Country identification, such as en-US (this usage is described in ISO 639)
Could be in http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.3
7.3 The HTML element
!ENTITY % html.content "HEAD, BODY">
!ELEMENT HTML O O (%html.content;) -- document root element -->
!ATTLIST HTML
%i18n; -- lang, dir --
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lang (language information), dir (text direction)
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