Barney,
One other thing you might want to check is how (mime type, character encoding)
your web server is serving the file.
If you are using a server side language then most (if not all) can send http
headers to a browser, including a content type header. In PHP, for instance,
you'd do this to send an UTF8 encoded html file.
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
and this to send a UTF8 encoded xml file (and so on ad nauseam)
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');
If you are just serving static HTML pages, without middleware in the way, then
check your web server config for how it sends text/html pages. In Apache
you'll find this in the main config file, if you don't have access to that
then try the .htaccess methods.
Of course, whether or not your document includes characters from other
character sets that cannot be mapped to UTF8 is another matter ;) - if the
browser cannot render the character you'll see the odd ?? characters in their
place.
Cheers
James
On Friday 11 July 2008 00:25:13 Barney Carroll wrote:
> Thanks for your swift responses, all.
>
> The validator gives me an unconditional pass after putting in Kevin's
> properly-formed tag:
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> Notepad++ was really nice, but I suspected it was being a bit silly. On a
> Mac I'd use BBEdit (loved that) but PCs seem to be short on really
> head-above-the-crowd open source code editors.
>
> Nikita, that's worth knowing... And yes it is ending up US-ASCII, but I'd
> just like to be sure I'm sticking to the lowest common denominator...
>
> Regards,
> Barney
>
> On 7/10/08, Nikita The Spider The Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Barney Carroll
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I've got a problem with character set encoding I'd like to rectify. I
> > > use UTF-8 as a matter of convenience and ideology, and don't believe it
> >
> > should
> >
> > > be that much of a problem. My editor (Notepad++) is set to create new
> >
> > files
> >
> > > in UTF-8 without a byte order mark, but when I retrieve files from my
> >
> > server
> >
> > > it tells me that they're ANSI.
> >
> > Does "ANSI" means US-ASCII? The most popular single-byte encodings
> > (ISO-8859-X, Win-1252) and UTF-8 are supersets of US-ASCII, so a
> > US-ASCII file is also valid UTF-8 (and ISO-8859-X and Win-1252) all at
> > the same time. It's pretty easy to write English-language pages that
> > are 100% pure US-ASCII, so this might be your situation. Notepad++ has
> > saved the file as UTF-8, but in this situation that doesn't look any
> > different from US-ASCII (i.e. "ANSI").
> >
> > Here's an ASCII chart. There are a lot of things floating around out
> > there that claim to be "extended ASCII", "Microsoft ASCII", "Updated
> > ASCII", etc. None of them are official. ASCII ends at character 127,
> > end of story.
> > http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.shtml
> >
> > Here's a list of valid charset names:
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
> >
> > > I ran an automatic W3C validation of my markup just a second ago after
> > > making some edits and it warns me that no character set encoding was
> > > specified (even though the first tag in my heads is <meta
> > > name="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">).
> >
> > For us to figure out why that is, you'll need to share a URL with us.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Philip
> > http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
> > Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more
> >
> >
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