[FX.php List] Re: Mysterious asterisks appearing in fields

[Kevin Futter]

On 8/3/07 9:37 AM, "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:

> Kevin,
> 
> Let's separate the character encoding with which an HTML page or PHP
> script is *saved* by the programmer's text editor from the Apache
> setting and/or meta tags used to *render* that page in a browser, or
> interpret user input in a form.
> 
> Encoding does matter; it is not just a label. Try this experiment on
> a site that talks to FMSA 7 or 8:
> 
> 1. Put this tag at the top of a page that contains an HTML form with
> a textarea for input:
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">
> 2. Copy some text from MS Word (Windows) and paste it in the textarea.
> 3. Submit the form.
> 4. Take a look at what you get in your corresponding FileMaker field.
> 
> Then replace the tag above with:
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> ...repeat the Word paste and see what you get.
> 
> Dale

You're missing the point Dale - this: <meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> *is* just a label (and *not* encoding,
and I suspect we're talking at cross purposes about that one). Unfortunately
it matters in that some applications that receive data via the web use this
label (and assume it's accurate) to determine how it treats that data. If
the meta element (it's not a tag) or MIME type is different from the
actually document encoding, you've got problems.

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




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