[FX.php List] French and not only characters

[Dale Bengston]

Kevin -

You're right about FM6. I think it pre-dates Unicode!

I have found UTF-8 works better with FMSA7/8. When I started  
migrating code I left things as they were for v6 (didn't notice), and  
I had problems with special characters in textareas and the like.

On the other hand, I recycled code for UTF-8 into a v6 site and had  
even worse problems. I'm a believer!

Dale

On May 12, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 12/5/06 9:16 AM, "Joel Shapiro" <jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Good memory / educated guess, Andy ;-)  Dale's post of this saved me
>> a lot of grief too.  And good advice to put this on all submission
>> pages.
>>
>> FYI to others: there are apparently different charset requirements
>> based on the FMServer/Unlimited version:
>>
>>> FM7SA  FM8SA
>>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>>>
>>> FM5-6U US
>>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
>>> charset=iso-8859-1">
>>>
>>> FM5-6U EU
>>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
>>> charset=iso-8859-15">
>>
>> Best,
>> -Joel
>
> They're not so much requirements as just what those particular  
> versions of
> FileMaker support. - ie, The FM6 family appears not to support unicode
> (denoted by the UTF-8 charset declaration), whereas the newer  
> versions do.
> It's actually good practise to use UTF-8 in all pages for all purposes
> anyway, as it neatly sidesteps most language and character set  
> issues found
> on websites.
>
> (Disclaimer: I actually haven't moved any of my sites yet to UTF-8,  
> but
> bloddy well should!)
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
>
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