[FX.php List] Bad apostrophe character confounds FMP

Mon Dec 10 14:44:47 MST 2007

On 11/12/07 8:31 AM, "Troy Meyers" <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com> wrote:

> Jonathan,
> 
> A couple of things...
> 
> (1) Is the PHP file saved as UTF-8, no BOM as I described for BBEdit?
> 
> 
> (2) You've got HTML content...
> 
> <br><BR>ON PAGE LOAD:<br>Query error: 0<br>Query count: 1<br>
> 
> ...BEFORE even the DOCTYPE is declared. That should come after, in the <BODY>
> portion. I guess it's possible that's confusing the browser since it has to
> deal with characters before the encoding and DOCTYPE is declared.
> 
> Just guess, try to rearrange it?
> 
> -Troy

The DOCTYPE declaration should definitely be the first thing on the page;
even preceding whitespace can confuse certain browsers under certain
conditions. Anything preceding the DOCTYPE declaration invalidates the page
(from a web standards point-of-view), but this doesn't directly affect the
unicode issue. Most browsers will switch to quirks mode under those
conditions, and then all bets are off as to how they handle things.

It may not solve your current problem Jonathon, but it's definitely
something you need to address to build a standards-compliant page.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/

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