Swedish characters and utf-8

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I don't know what's the problem -- this looks correct, and saving this to a.html I visualize it just perfectly on Safari, Chrome and Firefox on my Mac. What browsers and platforms are visualizing them wrong for you? Can you "view source" on said browsers to ensure this is actually what they're being served?

Alex Martelli 2009-09-02 02:13:31

u tried it on IE? I just get square boxes too.

waqasahmed 2009-09-02 02:17:02

well in firefox and internet explorer 6 it prints a square box instead of those 3 letters

2009-09-02 02:18:29

same for me... I just tried it in Chrome... I get same results as John (3 question marks this time)

waqasahmed 2009-09-02 02:19:55

btw, they appear correctly in source

waqasahmed 2009-09-02 02:24:24

not for me, square boxes in source too

2009-09-02 02:25:33

And what encoding do IE and Chrome (what platform for the latter?) say the page is using? (My 3 mac browsers all say it's utf-8, as well as showing it correctly). If you save it to a.html and open that file does the problem persist (showing that it's not a server problem but a browser problem) or disappear (showing the reverse)?

Alex Martelli 2009-09-02 02:30:52

I think the server serving the page is overriding the encoding. Can you please try: Setting charset information in .htaccess.

Alan Haggai Alavi 2009-09-02 02:18:29

Even on client side it doesn't work.

waqasahmed 2009-09-02 02:22:09

didnt work here

2009-09-02 02:24:27

Can you check the encoding of the page in any of these browsers?

Alan Haggai Alavi 2009-09-02 02:26:15

Works fine for me either double-clicking a file (as long as the editor is utf-8 capable) or serving it from localhost (Apache, defaults to UTF-8).

You should indeed check what HTTP headers your web server is sending along the file. If your previous content is in English (read: ASCII) you may have never had a hint that your server was overriding the infile declaration of UTF-8 with a header saying ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252.

You may take a look at the headers in realtime with some Firefox extensions like Live HTTP Headers or HTTPFox. If this is the cause of the mishap and your server is Apache just add the line AddDefaultCharset utf-8 either in the mainl httpd.conf file or a .htaccess file in the webroot folder.

djn 2009-09-02 02:57:32

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