Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Manuel González Noriega
[UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long as you remember to put a meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 in your page's head. Actually, what you should be doing is getting the server to send the right content-type header. Meta elements are

RE: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dejan Kozina Sent: 22 November 2004 01:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters Julin Landerreche wrote: 1) Question: Is there a way to use special characters directly

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Dejan Kozina
Manuel Gonzlez Noriega wrote: [UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long as you remember to put a meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" in your page's head. Actually, what you should be doing is getting the

RE: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel González Noriega Sent: 22 November 2004 09:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters [UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Manuel González Noriega
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:24 -, Richard Ishida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Manuel, Dejan, There are pros and cons to using the HTTP header to declare the encoding. At the W3C we recommend that you always declare encoding inside the document, whether or not you use the HTTP header.

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-21 Thread Dejan Kozina
Julin Landerreche wrote: 1) Question: Is there a way to use special characters directly in the code? Two ways, actually, both requiring the pages being displayed as utf-8. One is writing the document with an editor capable of saving text as utf-8 (Unired is the one I like -

[WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-18 Thread Julián Landerreche
Hi all, my name is Julián, i'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I have read this great tutorial (http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/) recommended by WSG . The article makes things more clearly to me, but not totally.. I feel this topic (choosing encoding and using special

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-18 Thread Joseph Lindsay
Hi Julin, We have issues in New Zealand with words in Mori. In government we are required to use macrons to indicate a long vowel sound in Mori words. The way we do it is to use UTF-8 as the document character set encoded in 7-bit ASCII. More info is available here:

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-18 Thread Matthew
Hi Julin, I think it's even a difficult article for techies, because there's little good advice. So here's some good advice, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html "In this article I'll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about