Quanta on FC5 shows wrong accented characters

CodeHeads ch at code-heads.com
Thu Apr 6 12:12:10 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 18:24 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Paul Smith:
> >> I have an HTML document produced with Quanta on FC4, but when I open
> >> it with Quanta on FC5, the accented characters are not properly shown.
> >> How can I have Quanta showing the accented characters correctly and
> >> saving the HTML document with the correct accented characters?
> 
> CodeHeads:
> > This is one of the reasons I quite using Quanta. It was too buggy for
> > me.  I switched to bluefish. 
> 
> That may or may not help, depending on the problem Paul's got
> (authoring, serving and/or browsing).
> 
> If serving HTML over HTTP, the HTTP headers should specify what
> character encoding is used (e.g. UTF-8).  Failing that, and for non HTTP
> served HTML, a meta statement in the head of the page can do a similar
> job.  Otherwise, the browser plays guessing games, and can get it wrong,
> or just makes an assumption based on user preferences or local defaults.
> 
> NB:  HTTP headers are authoritative, so if your server sends them, but
> your document uses a different encoding, specifying something different
> in the meta details isn't going to help.  In that case, your choices
> are:  Fix the HTTP details to suit your document (can be a default
> setting, can be determined per document).  Remove the HTTP headers about
> content encoding and rely on each document defining itself *within*
> itself (not a brilliant solution).  Author your document using the
> encoding the HTTP headers will advertise.
> 

Thanks Tim for the explanation. :)

I cannot remember exactly what my problems where with it, but it was
more then just the encoding. :(

Actually I like bluefish a bit better. :)

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