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#1 2003-03-10 8:14 am
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charset=iso-8859-1 ?
My text editor of choice keeps telling me that I have unsupported characters in my HTML pages, but it won't tell me which ones aren't supported. I'm declaring charset=iso-8859-1 via a meta tag.
The only special characters I'm using are things like & n tilde; or right or left quotes, for ex.
Code:
&8221;
Where can I find a table of all supported characters for charset=iso-8859-1? W3C has tons of stuff on encoding, but I haven't been able to find an index or table of what is actually supported.
I should add, the documents in question use a HTML 4.0 Transitional DTD.
OK, I've found this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
but I'm not using any characters that aren't included there.
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#2 2003-03-10 9:28 am
Re: charset=iso-8859-1 ?
Well... you text editor says there are unsupported characters, but a text editor is not a browser. When you open in HTML file in a browser, do the special characters show up? If they do in all browsers, then you don't have a problem (except with your text editor).
Uuhhh... you could also try using the ASCII characters instead of the hex or decimal versions. (& tilde ; instead of & #732 ; or & #x2DC ; [no spaces])
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#4 2003-03-10 1:56 pm
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Re: charset=iso-8859-1 ?
Basseq, I've never had a problem seeing my special characters in any of the major modern post 4.0 browsers on at least Windows and the Mac.
The text editor shall remain nameless, as some of my files were rendered empty as a result of a common operation in that program. I'm now beta testing a new version, and hence have been asked not to name names.
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#5 2003-03-11 12:30 pm
Re: charset=iso-8859-1 ?
Sounds like you don't have a problem, then.
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