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"UTF-8" - Western ISO-8859-1 -Aanyone Has this Problem??

by A Bary
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Hello

I use the UTF-8 character encoding for my pages, actually it's automatically embedded by both Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web, and it should be a universal encoding system that works fine on all computers...
However, I get a complaint from some people using the Western ISO Latin encoding on their browsers, and the meant page is just appearing full of crap and invalid characters..

Shouldn't the UTF-8 encoding characters on my webpage avoid this?

What you do to solve such a problem?

I am afraid if I use the ISO Latin encoding on my webpages a problem for other users may appear..

Any suggestions?
#aanyone #iso #problem #utf8 #western
  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    Maybe it was fixed in the latest edition of DW, but it always did have a serious problem saving as UTF-8. Check this thread. One guy mentions he could only do that by including a commented out Japanese character in the code.

    utf-8/ansi pain in the neck - Web Hosting Talk

    If you do have UTF-8 declared, a few MS Word characters will show up totally transformed, but not in a nice way.

    I normally do save as utf-8 and have just learned to avoid the MS characters.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    As it was said above: make sure you don't copy/paste anything from M$ Word into a html file.

    You can suggest for those that were complaining to set their browser to "automatically detect" encoding - instead of forcing their own choice...
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    • Profile picture of the author A Bary
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      As it was said above: make sure you don't copy/paste anything from M$ Word into a html file.

      You can suggest for those that were complaining to set their browser to "automatically detect" encoding - instead of forcing their own choice...
      Thanks Istvan, but the problem is, people see weird characters and suppose that the problem is with your page, not in their browsers

      I fixed the majority of the problem, but few characters still appear in the background no matter what I do!
      I never copy anything from word, I copy from notepad and do the styling in the html editor, but for some reason that I can't figure, the Western ISO Latin encoding messes with my page
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    If you want you could PM me a site like that and I could take a look at it with different browsers with different settings...
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    • Profile picture of the author A Bary
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      If you want you could PM me a site like that and I could take a look at it with different browsers with different settings...
      Wow, that's really generous Istvan

      I sent you a message, I wish you can figure a solution.

      A. Bary
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