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Change the HTML Encoding from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

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Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 - Post #21224
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Right except what is related to home.htm

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Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 - Post #21225
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cbetant (3/31/2008)
Right except what is related to home.htm

Exactly.  This is because the encoding for home.htm is the following:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>

If home.htm was encoded in UTF-8, everything would display fine.

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 - Post #21238
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I've put it back to UTF-8 and still the same issue. Any content in UTF-8 doen't display properly as the server is setup for ISO.
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 - Post #21239
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Had a look at your home.htm page and it shows some garbled characters due to code setting (ISO), if I set my encoding to Unicode everything shows correct. This was on Japanese Windows environment.

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Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - Post #21244
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By the way, Unicode and UTF-8 are the same.  UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format, which is a method for encoding / compressing Unicode characters.

Edited: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by GenoProSupport
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To cbetant:
In your post 21238, you said you 'put it back to UTF-8'. But did you save home.htm as Utf-8? With Notepad:

Also, beside the sub, you're not using my last Dic Rev. Download it from here:

   http://support.genopro.com/FindPost21080.aspx

and you'll then get proper Family phrases (without 'True' as it refered to an old parameter).

JC

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 - Post #21348
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The goal here was to replace utf by iso, so putting back home.htm on utf doesn't make it!?
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I'm wondering why would you want to move away from unicode standard utf-8 and get a non-universal iso codepage that limits you in many ways?

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jcguasp (4/1/2008)
In your post 21238, you said you 'put it back to UTF-8'. But did you save home.htm as Utf-8? With Notepad:

Saving to UTF-8 has little to do, because GenoPro will load the HTML template and convert it to Unicode internally.  What is necessary is to specify the encoding of the output with:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>


Edited: Thursday, April 10, 2008 by GenoProSupport
Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Post #21383
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The reason is already stated in the beginning of this tread, my web editor does not support well utf-8, so the web site use iso. Because this parameter is defined on the web server, it doesn't work to have a mix of ISO and UTF pages. All pages works wells in ISO except this home.htm. Any info about why configuring this page to ISO doesn't work as for the other pages?


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