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Hi Richard,
Thanks for that info, the guy who runs the server
here has fixed the server to run UTF-8, so no problems there.
The XHTML reference was really good. I had started
using the ' XHTML tag for ' not realising that it wouldn't work
for browsers that don't read XHTML (such as IE5). Glad I got to read that one
before we went live! I have now changed it to ’
What's your opinion on using Character Entities
over Hexadecimal values. I can't seem to get a clear response on which is
better.
Thanks again.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:54
PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Character encoding
mismatch
Thanks, Susan, for pointing to that stuff.
Paul, you if
you're using Apache you may also find this particularly useful:
"Setting
'charset' information in .htaccess"
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset
That
would allow you to continue using utf-8, which I think is a good
move.
Also, you may find the following useful wrt using character
references:
"Using character entities and NCRs"
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes
Hope
that helps,
RI
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W3C
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-----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susanne
Jäger
> Sent: 10 November 2005 12:21
> To: [email protected]
>
Subject: Re: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch
>
> Paul Collins
wrote, On 10.11.2005 12:44:
>
> > I thought this was the
correct way to add special characters for
> > XHTML, but what I am
reading now seems to contradict this.
> This is the
> > part
of standards where I get a bit confused. Does anyone have any
> >
advice or know of some good articles where they explain
> this in
simple
> > terms??
>
> Have a look at the material in
W3Cs
> internationalization-Section W3C I18N Topic Index
>
<http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index.html#charset>
>
> I like the Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML,
> HTML and CSS
> <http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#
choosing>
>
At least they try to explain the rather complicated stuff for
>
everyone. ;-)
>
> HTH
> Susanne
>
>
>
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