[FX.php List] Strange encoding problem

[Dale Bengston]

Have you taken a look at the physical files, or loaded them manually in a browser outside of the database call? Just wondering if there's some corruption going on or something.

Dale

On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> No, they're stored as files, and then FileMaker tells the page what file to include. Been working for years…
> 
> BP
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bob,
>> 
>> Are the pages stored as files or are they stored in database fields?
>> 
>> Dale
>> 
>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>> 
>>> I should mention that I tried changing the HEAD tag on the page to
>>> 
>>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
>>> 
>>> but that didn't fix it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have a site that's been on the same web server for almost 6 years.
>>>> 
>>>> Basically, this client had a collection of thousands (actually 1.2 million) static HTML pages that he used on the web. I took their pages, developed a database to catalog them, and wrote a web app to display the pages.
>>>> 
>>>> Now, all of a sudden, we're getting text-encoding errors that weren't there just a while ago; instead of bullets or apostrophes we're getting broken image icons.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this a UTF-8 error, and if so, why all of a sudden is this happening on their pages, when the web server hasn't changed?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Bob Patin
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