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    Character set unicode

    I keep beying confused in the area of character sets.

    In the AlphaFive Help I find this:
    Code:
    Character Sets

When you open an A5W page in WYSIWYG mode, the editor automatically adds the following code below the <head> tag. If you wish to use a different character set, you need to edit the page in a different editor.

<meta http-equiv=Content-type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> 

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    However, when I open a page in wysiwyg, I don't find that line on my page. Is there a setting in which I switched it off?


    And what about a line like

    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    I had the impression that that was added automatically. If find examples of coding like this in the help file and in forum contributions.

    On my system such lines don't seem to be added to new a5w pages.

    The reason I bring this up, is that sometimes international characters don't display correctly in a browser. It seems to depend on the browser settings. In Firefox you can define the default character coding. That is used when a web page does not contain a character set line itself.
    Here we run into problems with the unicode.

    I thought that when A5 creates a a5w page (for instance from a grid - Seve Page command) the doctype and charset unicode where automatically added. This seems not toe be the case.

    So, A5 encodes in unicode, but does not tell the broeser. And if the browser hes been set to use for instance Western 8859-1, we have a conflicitng situation...

    I've been poking around with different combinations of browser settings and page coding. I could not find a solution.

    So, in short:

    What must I do to make sure that international characters are stored correctly in the database and are diplayed correctly in ant browser with any setting?
    Ren�
    Windows 7, V11
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    Re: Character set unicode

    Hi Rene
    I wondered if you had mastered the international settings problem you had.

    I have run into this same problem where the UK pound � shows as a tiny square in a text area field.

    I tried inserting the following code but it makes no difference

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
    Regards
    John

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      #3
      Re: Character set unicode

      Hi John,

      I switched to version 9. Then the problems were gone. I hosted the database on an american system and configured it for dutch users without problems.

      I guess that version 10 also works flowless with the international characters ;-)
      Regards,
      Ren�
      Ren�
      Windows 7, V11

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        #4
        Re: Character set unicode

        Thanks Rene
        Doesn't seem to, I am on V10. This is on my local machine its the first time I have encountered the problem although I am fairly new to A5.

        I also use access for web and have had no problems there.

        Cheers
        John

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          #5
          Re: Character set unicode

          Hi John,

          Sorry to hear that.
          Unfortunatily I cannot help you. I stopped using A5 about a year ago (I handed over the database management to someone else) and I don't have the tools any more to set things up.

          I hope someone else can help you further.

          Greetz,
          Ren�
          Ren�
          Windows 7, V11

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            #6
            Re: Character set unicode

            Thanks Rene
            (I handed over the database management to someone else)
            sounds like that may be a good idea!
            Have since discovered that it will accept $ but not �'s.
            I always felt the UK should either join the Euro or the Dollar!
            Maybe this is the starting point!
            Cheers
            John

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