I keep beying confused in the area of character sets.
In the AlphaFive Help I find this:
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
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?
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"> S
And what about a line like
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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?
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