Bill, I would love to move to UTF8. Problem is, 99% of our site was created with ISO-8859-1, so when I changed it to UTF8, all " and ' characters got question marks. And I am not about to go through the entire site and retype those. Not sure what that happens though.
On May 22, 11:12 am, Bil Corry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hubbs wrote on 5/22/2008 12:23 PM: > > > Karl, it seems to be the biggest problem when text is copied from MS > > Word, then sent through ajax. The quotes don't play nice. > > The curly quotes from MS Word are in the Windows-1252 character set. You're > using ISO-8859-1, which does not have the curly quotes (they don't exist in > ISO-8859-1). So even if you work around the UTF-8 issue, you will never get > the curly quotes to work properly in ISO-8859-1 (except maybe browsers that > auto-detect the charset mismatch and adjust accordingly). > > So at a minimum, you should change to Windows-1252 character set if you want > to support the extended MS characters, but if you're going to switch, just > jump to UTF-8 and call it good. > > - Bil
