which charset shall i use for german?

bailey87 · Post by **bailey87** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:22 am

i have problems with the charset which is given in serendipity...

first i used UTF 8 and i just had problems with copyright symbols

then i used the given charset (german)

falk · Post by **falk** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:36 am

If you only have problems with the copyright-sign you can be luky. I have more problems

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I use the iso-8859-1, because the browsers are not using the right charset. If you give the utf8 charset to the browser and they are detect the iso charset, they will use the iso charset. I think this problm is because the files (templates, php aso) are iso coded.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:22 pm

Basically UTF-8 should work; it does for me at least. But when you switch the charset, older entries will not switch their encoding. That is described here:http://www.s9y.org/46.html

How did you enter the coypright symbol? If it doesn'T display in UTf-8, it's not part of the UTF-8 charset or you entered it via some ASCII-Code that was unproper. You should use the HTML entity © for it, BTW.

Regards,
Garvin