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Don’t let Unicode support be the death of you

Started by dennmart · 8 months ago

You Americans (and British, Australians and any other English speakers) have it easy. When you need to create a web application, all you need to use for your text is the basic English alphabet, only 26 different characters and 10 digits. The rest of the world, myself included, aren&% ... Continue reading »

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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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!
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  • Kersti

    11 months 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?
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