Tag Archives: Double Byte Characters

About my server (run because of the wonderful folk with Media Temple) that will serves my web page Pixelsurgeon (which is currently undergoing a redesign) the DefaultCharset in the primary httpd. conf is actually ISO-8859-1, but I’m wondering if it needs to be set to UTF-8. For illustration of the condition check out bug #4 here: http: //dropbox. pixelsurgeon. com/bugs/ which is an XHTML page set to UTF-8. There are a few double-byte characters (Japanese, China, Korean) and several accented characters and several Polish. Instead connected with displaying correctly, which jointly do using UTF-8, they manifest as gibberish. HOWEVER – in the event you MANUALLY set the particular Text Encoding to help UTF-8 (for example View > Textual content Encoding > UTF-8 in Firefox) everything snaps just how it should. It’s almost as if the text encoding fact < meta http-equiv=" content-type" content=" text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in the head is becoming ignored. Locally on my machine (Mac OSX which uses a version of UTF-8 for text encoding) everything is fine and also the page works precisely as it should. It just stops working when uploaded towards server. The most apparent thing I can think about is a mismatch somewhere between … Continue reading →