eleven0 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 I need help with encoding different characters. My pages can't show turkish characters such as "ö,ç,ş,ü". All I get is a question mark instead of these characters. Can someone tell me how I can fix this? It seems it works fine on these forums. FYI: I use "jEdit" if it matters. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
eleven0 Posted October 31, 2008 Author Share Posted October 31, 2008 This was kind of weird. I tried UTF-8 in file, it didn't work. Then I changed it to "UTF-8" in my text editor. It works now. I don't know why text editor overrides what it's in meta. Anyone? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-679077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Because the files themselves are encoded when they are saved. It's not that they are over-riding the meta tag, it's that the meta tag is used to tell the browser what coding the files are saved in. So if the meta tag says UTF8 and the document isn't utf-8, then the meta tag is telling the browser the wrong encoding type. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-679143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 It is always recommended to use the utf-8 character encoding since it is universal. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-679528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 It is always recommended to use the utf-8 character encoding since it is universal. That's incorrect. charset=ISO-8859-1 is more prevalent. UTF-8 should only be used when using special characters. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-680350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 Hm. Guess the article I read was wrong. I'll research that statement some more. May have to contact the webmaster and correct them Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-680354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 UTF-8 isn't the end all to everything that some people think it is. It's good, and covers a lot of characters from a lot of languages, but it doesn't cover all of them by all means. Particularly with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), utf-8 isn't as good a solution as other character sets that are made specifically for those languages. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-680874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I guess it depends on who your target audience is. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-680895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Pretty much. For English sites, 99.9% of the time utf-8 will be fine. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-680970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Yea. Also is your haku name from samurai jack? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-680979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 No. It means 'white'. And I'm white! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-681836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Mega lie!! How old are you btw. I always wonder this about people with his post counts, cuz I imagine them with loads of expereince. I'm only 17 Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-681844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'm 32. 'Tis not a lie though, it really does mean white (and I really am white). Or I should say, it's one reading of the kanji for white, it's read 'shiro' when the kanji is by itself. But when combined with the kanji for person, it becomes haku-jin (white man), or with bird it's haku-cho (white bird - a swan), and there are some other cases where it is read 'haku' as well. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-681890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 You need an intense avatar like me XD Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-682120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 'White' would end up being a pretty vanilla avatar Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-682608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Ha yea, well we should stop trolling around in this thread :/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/130832-encoding-help/#findComment-682972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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