On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 18:24 +0930, Tim wrote: > Paul Smith: > >> I have an HTML document produced with Quanta on FC4, but when I open > >> it with Quanta on FC5, the accented characters are not properly shown. > >> How can I have Quanta showing the accented characters correctly and > >> saving the HTML document with the correct accented characters? > > CodeHeads: > > This is one of the reasons I quite using Quanta. It was too buggy for > > me. I switched to bluefish. > > That may or may not help, depending on the problem Paul's got > (authoring, serving and/or browsing). > > If serving HTML over HTTP, the HTTP headers should specify what > character encoding is used (e.g. UTF-8). Failing that, and for non HTTP > served HTML, a meta statement in the head of the page can do a similar > job. Otherwise, the browser plays guessing games, and can get it wrong, > or just makes an assumption based on user preferences or local defaults. > > NB: HTTP headers are authoritative, so if your server sends them, but > your document uses a different encoding, specifying something different > in the meta details isn't going to help. In that case, your choices > are: Fix the HTTP details to suit your document (can be a default > setting, can be determined per document). Remove the HTTP headers about > content encoding and rely on each document defining itself *within* > itself (not a brilliant solution). Author your document using the > encoding the HTTP headers will advertise. > Thanks Tim for the explanation. :) I cannot remember exactly what my problems where with it, but it was more then just the encoding. :( Actually I like bluefish a bit better. :) -- Best regards, ~WILL~ Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch1.asc Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch2.asc Linux Commands: http://code-heads.com/commands Linux Registered User: 406084 (http://counter.li.org/)
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