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zonble
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 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: The encoding problems |
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The default encoding of the httpd server and the template is iso-8859-1, therefore that the non-Western characters are unable to be displayed.  |
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john
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:58 am Post subject: |
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We have changed this so that new users will have a charset of utf-8. To alter your own, enter the back office, click on Templates and change
| Code: | | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> |
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| Code: | | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> |
Or simply reselect the theme of your choice in the back office.
If you have further problems, please let us know
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bunnywabbit_
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| That means I'm going to have to convert my database content, which won't be a bit issue as I only wrote in English. If I were a non-English user, I would have to go and manually edit all the special characters in my posts to change the db content, as I don't have direct access. Make sense? |
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john
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but actually they were already posted and stored in utf-8, despite the templates saying iso-8859-1. The change to utf-8 in the templates *should* be sufficient though i am keeping my eyes open for problems...
Well, it should be sufficient if my thinking is right. Which i think it is. Which i think is unsurprising 
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bunnywabbit_
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll run a small test on that |
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bunnywabbit_
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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What I thought.
View http://bunny.blogsome.com/2004/11/30/un-test-dencodage/ in a browser like FireFox. Looks right, doesn't it?
Now choose View > Character Encoding, and note (at least that's how it is for me) that there is a checkmark next to Western ISO-8859-1.
This seems to show that the server is serving ISO-8859-1, despite what is specified in the meta header.
Just for fun, force FireFox to read the page as UTF-8 by selecting UTF-8 from that menu: the accents in my French post get all jumbled.
For an example of REAL UTF-8, try http://climbtothestars.org/.
Probably the server is set to serve ISO-8859-1 by default. Try reading what I went through when I dived into encoding hell some months ago, I think it has the solution:
http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/07/18/converting-mysql-database-contents-to-utf-8/
What is pulled out of the database right now on Blogsome is ISO-8859-1 as far as I can tell. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Thanks - i was unaware of an apache directive doing that - dammit! Database all converted now and everything should be shiny and happy. Thanks for the link - made switching it over the work of a moment
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bunnywabbit_
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| You're welcome -- that's why I wrote all the isntructions down (as it took me a few days to figure out, I assumed it might save other people's time) |
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gimle
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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and with the email what can we do?
pd: i have this problem only with my gmail mail account |
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gimle
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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an example
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