Hi,
I am confused about the rendering of characters like é and ë. If I enter them like that in HTML-Kit in a file with charset iso-8859-1, they appear as such in the browser. But in a file created by WeBuilder I have to declare utf-8. In other words: the combination of HTML-Kit and utf-8 makes them render as strange characters, as does the combination WeBuilder and iso-8859-1. How is that possible? Doctype doesn't change matters. I am using v. 11.01.
R.,
Frank
Different editor, different effect charset?
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Re: Different editor, different effect charset?
I did some more testing and came to a very remarkable conclusion: if WeBuilder has created or just changed a file, one can have the charset utf-8 content-type tag in the head, but still type special characters as one normally would in e-mails or Word. It is not necessary to type € for the € sign. And this effect stays, even if other editors (also Notepad, Notepad2 and Notepad++) change the file after WeBuilder and save it! While if the three Notepads create exactly the same file by themselves, one has to use the codes for the special characters -- until the file has been opened in WeBuilder and saved!
On the other hand, a page with needs the iso-8895-1 charset for the € to display as €, rather than as a small square.
Is this a bug or intentional, and what would be the mechanism behind it?
On the other hand, a page with
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<?php echo "This is the € sign." ?>Is this a bug or intentional, and what would be the mechanism behind it?