Thursday, October 2, 2003, 12:49:04 PM, mailmur wrote: >> Daniel Dekany >> But anyway, I think that controlling output encoding >> in template is >> usually not a good practice. And, I tend to think >> that the safest is if >> you just use UTF-8 as output encoding everywhere... >> no "?"-s. > > This is what I encountered and had a minor problem in > Win2k environment (if template is ever saved with > Notepad UTF8 format). Win-notepad will add UTF8 bom > marker (3 bytes) at the start...which is a very good > as programs can transparently handle several encodings > without an user interaction. > If velocity is used to generate html files > (text/html), then extra ? character is not displayed > at the webbrowser. Maybe browsers recognise the bom > and will skip it.
I feel some confusion here. The thing is that Win2K/XP Notepad adds a BOM character (UCS code FEFF) at the beginning of the file (with UTF-8 encoding, if save with that). That character can be superfluous here (as HTTP has charset given in the content-type header, it doesn't need auto-detection), also some UNICODE aware software doesn't understand what's that BOM there (as Opera Web browser, and it seems, Sun Java platform impl.), but it is still a plain simple character there. So if your *output* encoding is UTF-8, and also Velocity uses UTF-8 *input* (template) encoding, then that must not become to '?'. You see, that's a legal UTF-8 encoded character, so it must remain what it was originally, if the output and input encoding is the same... > But generating "text/plain" from Notepad-UTF8 saved > velocity template will output ? character as first > character. I suspect either your input or output encoding is not UTF-8. > My unicoderesourceloader has a standalone testprogram to see it > happen. The resource loader should automatically interpret and remove leading BOM, as some software is confused on the leading BOM... -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
