Everything should be in UTF-8. Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA
For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com [email protected] If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Aug 21, 2010, at 8:33 PM, tristen wrote: > I've noticed some of the results contain funny characters which seem > to be related to encoding. > > For instance, to search from the google search page: > > http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ajaxian+javascript+multi > > The first result of that search returns a few results with those funny > right-bracket characters (chevrons I think). They appear fine on the > google site, ie: > > Ajaxian » Multi-threaded JavaScript? > > But if I do a search using the same term using the search API and I > inspect the title field - I can see it's been URL encoded as follows: > > Ajaxian%20%C2%BB%20Multi-threaded%20JavaScript%3F > > If I decode that using javascript uridecodecomponent then it appears > like this: > > Ajaxian » Multi-threaded JavaScript? > > With that funny "A" character appearing before the chevron. If I > decode it server-side using the UTF-8 character set then it appears > the same, ie: > > Ajaxian » Multi-threaded JavaScript? > > Clearly, in this case, the %C2 character is that funny "A", it's > listed here on this page. > > http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp > > I haven't tried any other character sets mainly because I searched the > API reference to see if there was a field that indicated which > character set an individual result was encoded in. I couldn't see one, > but maybe I've missed something? > > I can happily use iconv to decode if I know which character set to > use. Am I wrong to assume everything returned by the Search API is in > UTF-8? Should I instead assume everything returned by the Google > Search API is in a different character set (eg: ISO-8859-1?) > > Firstly: may I apologise in advance for any naivete on my part? > > I'd really appreciate some advice on how I should deal with this > issue! > > Regards > Tristen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
