DISQUS

rocks · 1 year ago

hey dude...nice article. the info was really helpful.

strange thing though...i had my unicode set up and it doesn't seem like it was getting over-ridden by the server cuz upon loading the page, the character coding was marked as unicode, but the spanish characters still weren't showing.

i switched to iso-8859-1 coding and that seemed to do the trick, although it's pain to go through and change the meta tag on all of the pages...ni modo. thanks for the info though the article is great...

rock

rocks · 1 year ago

oops okay just realize that i had saved a couple of my pages in ansi and not utf-8 and that was responsible for the problem...no need to change coding to iso...thanks again...

rocks

Jesse · 1 year ago

Great article - thanks! Unfortunately I still can't figure out why I'm getting weird characters in my non-english text output. I've set apache default encoding to utf-8, and indicated utf-8 encoding in both the HTTP headers as well as META head. The characters look fine when I see them in my logs and in the database table for languages (also utf-8), but in the browser there are question marks for all the non-ANSI chars. argh!

Kersti · 1 year ago

I'm wondering if there's any compatibility issues with other character sets that you've found? I need to run a number of websites, most are in English but I've just added a Russian one into the mix and this is my major headache - if I change the encoding will I damage any of my existing sites?