[FX.php List] special characters and fm

Wed Sep 12 19:55:20 MDT 2007

I learned the hard way on a recent project for a Japanese client; I  
now use these 4 lines all the time:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"  
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

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On Sep 12, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:

> Alicia,
>
> The Parameter Missing error is one of the symptoms of not using:
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> I always put it in the <HEAD> section, not just at the top of the  
> page, like this:
>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> <title>My Page Name</title>
>
> ......
>
> Are you using Dreamweaver? It puts its own in too, so if you have  
> both, there might be a problem. Take a look at the code.
>
> I don't have to deal with the "both" problem now, the right thing  
> is put in a newly created page, because I changed the Preferences  
> in Dreamweaver. Look under Preferences, and find the "New Document"  
> panel. For Default Encoding select the dropdown menu item "Unicode  
> 4.0 UTF-8"
>
> WHATEVER EDITOR you are using, the META tag isn't enough, it also  
> needs to be SAVED using the correct encoding. For example, for  
> BBEdit, it's "UnicodeTM (UTF-8, no BOM)" which is selectable in one  
> of the popup menus at the bottom of the window.
>
> Maybe that helps?
>
> -Troy
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unfortunately it did not :(.
>>
>> I would have loved it if it would have.  The error code I am  
>> getting is
>> 958.  I think you are right though that it is something to do with
>> encoding since the text that is returned in place of the  
>> characters is
>> nonsense.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> Alicia Cosenza
>
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