the file may be saved as Western (ISO Latin 1), but when opening
in jEdit, the information at the bottom of the window persistently
shows Mac Roman, and the special characters are screwed. (This
appears to happen whether the jEdit default file preference is set
to Western (ISO Latin 1) or not.)
You MUST the character set the file was saved in with the default
character set for jEdit. There is no heuristic way for an editor to
figure out the difference between MacRoman and 8859-1 just by
looking at the file contents. They are both 256 byte extended Roman
character sets. How could it know?
If a file was saved in MacRoman, you have to open it in MacRoman
mode, change the buffer encoding to 8859-15 (see next paragraph as
to why), then save it. The great thing about jEdit is that you can
record this whole routine as a macro, assign it to a key, and
quickly apply it to many files. Or you could extend the macro
yourself to apply it to a whole directory automatically. Try doing
that in BBEdit...
You are actually better off using 8859-15 as the default character
encoding. It is the same as 8859-1, but replaces some little-used
characters with some missing European language characters. More
importantly, it has an official place for the Euro symbol, and 4D
is using that encoding it seems when converting to ISO.
Ok, thanks for the feedback. An example into serving pages, which
might further show the difficulties we're facing, not just in the
text editor, but also in serving pages.
In Active4D.ini, platform charset is left as default (Mac). Below is
the content of the script file. In Mac and Windows, the raw
characters (outside the Active4D script block) is correctly
displayed. The characters written by Active4D are incorrectly
displayed. Am I missing something here, or misunderstanding something?
Regards
Mark Howells
<%
set platform charset(A4D Charset ISO Latin1)
set output charset(A4D Charset ISO Latin1)
set output encoding(0)
%><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
äöü
<%
write("äöü")
%>
</body>
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