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General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: Peter Ahlstrom on September 30, 2004, 02:54:42 AM

Title: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on September 30, 2004, 02:54:42 AM

The website's character set is undefined, when it should be ISO Latin 1. I keep having to switch encodings in order to see curly quotes.

charset=_CHARSET

should read

charset=iso-8859-1

in order to match the encoding of the text you've got on the site.

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: Spriggan on September 30, 2004, 03:05:05 AM

That's because we enjoy makeing your internet browseing experence painful.

From the looks of it the Charset is being read in as a varable from somewhere, but honestly does seeing your quotes as curly ones realy matter that much?  Or are you just a straight quote hater?

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on September 30, 2004, 09:01:05 AM

yeah, I have to curse ISO for crap like that.

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: Tage on September 30, 2004, 12:45:57 PM

Our website has a character set?

Just kidding. Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out, Ook.

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on October 01, 2004, 12:14:08 AM

Actually when an article used curly quotes (and apostrophes), they just didn't show up at all, so I was seeing lots of words like "dont wont cant Ill" etc. and it was distracting.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: Spriggan on October 01, 2004, 03:00:58 AM

Odd, never noticed that before. Guess some browers use a default if there's no charset defined.

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: EUOL on October 01, 2004, 02:19:50 PM

I wonder if that will fix the infamous 'bringing in curly quotes from MS Word' bug.  Let's see:

She’d like to “Have” something that’d be fun to do.

Modification--guess not....

Title: Re: Add charset to page headers?
Post by: Spriggan on October 02, 2004, 04:38:07 AM

That was on the main site EUOL, not to forum it's allwayse had a charset defined.