Two pages to check:
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ent4_frame.html
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/latin_supplement/utf8test.htm
question is whether the &#nnnn; method works for you. If so, let's just go
with that and let translators translate as usual into unicode. I know that's
not a full solution, but I think it will serve.
Bob
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Angel Herráez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2008 at 9:49, Jonathan Gutow wrote:
> > You can look for yourself. By any chance does the "Old"
> > file look ok on your machine, which I assume defaults to Spanish?
>
> Right. WinXP Spanish
>
>
> > The
> > files are:
> >
> > Old (didn't work):
> > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/trans%20test%20es%202/trans%
> > 20test%20es%202.html
>
> Yes, wrong in IE7 and Firefox 3 (page title and footer)
>
>
> > New (works):
> > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/trans%20test%20es%203/trans%
> > 20test%20es%203.html
>
> OK in IE7 and Firefox 3
>
>
> > The solution seems to be the same as you used on your home page which
> > looks fine when I access it.
>
> I regularly use DreamWeaver now, which always inserts entities irrespective
> of the charset,
> but on occasions I enter accented characters directly in the source code.
> They show well in
> Windows, but sometimes fail either in Mac clients or from the the server.
> I've done tests of
> this topic several times and never could come to a clear conclusion, only
> that entities are
> safer in the html source; in form elements and in javascript-generated
> content I still have
> doubts. I've had this problem before with other pages, and I suspect that
> it depends on the
> web server; it was fixed after changing to entities. My assumption is that
> somehow some
> servers seem to impose UTF8 over the page-specified iso-8859-1 charset. Or
> at least that's
> the only explanation I can think of.
> (The uah.es server seems to do it right, but others don't.)
>
>
> > I also tried setting the file to the UTF-8 character set. That
> > doesn't seem to help. It also doesn't seem to disrupt the
> > javascript. You can access that file here:
> >
> > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/trans%20test%20es%202/
> > trans_test_es_02_utf8.html
>
> Wrong in IE7 and Firefox 3 here too.
>
> Still, when the user will type a custom page title with accents into the
> Export to Web dialog,
> the title may come out wrong in the browser (or it will depend on the
> server).
>
> So, let's set it for the use of entities as the better solution. I have
> documented all this into
> http://wiki.jmol.org:81/index.php/Internationalisation
>
> I still have a doubt: does the original version, trans test es 2.html
> look also wrong for you when read it from local disk? Are you using Mac?
>
>
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