> Yes, that seems to be Latin-1. Why are you using Latin-1 and not
> UTF-{8|16} in the first place? They are supersets of Latin-1.
I am aware of this, Marnen.
What I don't know is how to get Ruby/Rails to generate UTF-8 and/or
Unicode.
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//DE"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.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">
> You've got a number of problems here due to poor development decisions.
>
> * You've declared your document as XHTML, but not used an <?xml ?>
> prolog. Therefore, it will be interpreted as UTF-8 as described at
> http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset .
OK ... that sounds like the problem ... I think.
>
> * But you shouldn't be generating XHTML anyway. Browser support for
> XHTML is extremely problematic. See http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml for
> further information. Use HTML 4 or 5 instead. If you use HTML 4, make
> sure to install the html_output plugin so that Rails will not use the
> XML-style <self-closing tag/> syntax, which is not valid in HTML 4.
Ok ... which do you recommend ... 4 or 5?
>
> * But even with HTML 4, I confess I don't see a single reason not to use
> UTF-8 on your pages. It will handle any character you throw at it, so
> you don't need to use different encodings for different languages.
>
>> - - - - - --
>>
>>
>> I have run Mongrel and Webrick and I get the same results.
>>
>> I Have run Firefox and IE ... almost the same results
>>
>> What's the magic formula for getting the rendering engine to think that
>> the page source is iso-8859-1?
>>
>> Once I get that done then I will want to know how to get Ruby/Rails to
>> generate UTF-8 and/or Unicode.
>
> Don't waste your time with Latin-1. Go straight to UTF-8. It will be
> easier and more versatile.
OK ... so how to I get Ruby/Rails to generate UTF-8?
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