I am using Freeway Pro 5.3.2. I use umlauts (ä,ö,ü) which are displayed correctly in preview mode (Firefox). However, when the page is displayed in Firefox after the upload, I see only funny symbols instead of umlauts. Same thing with Safari. That is, only when the browser is set to Unicode. It DOES displays the umlauts if set to Western. I don’t understand that. It should work in Unicode, shouldn’t it?
What font are you specifying for your text? In Unicode, far far fewer
high-bit characters are encoded, and the browser relies on the
computer having those glyphs in the specified font. If you switch to
Western, you may find that those symbols are being converted to their
“entity” equivalents, which are fairly browser-proof.
Also, please post a link to a broken page. I can look at it in Firebug
and see what headers your server is sending. You might have one of the
older servers that doesn’t default to Unicode, and so it might not be
sending the correct character-encoding header. This is not down to
you, but there are things you can do to drag it, kicking and
screaming, into the 21st century.
Walter
On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:28 AM, James Brown wrote:
I am using Freeway Pro 5.3.2. I use umlauts (ä,ö,ü) which are
displayed correctly in preview mode (Firefox). However, when the
page is displayed in Firefox after the upload, I see only funny
symbols instead of umlauts. Same thing with Safari. That is, only
when the browser is set to Unicode. It DOES displays the umlauts if
set to Western. I don’t understand that. It should work in Unicode,
shouldn’t it?
but your server is sending the header as ‘Content-Type text/html;
charset=UTF-8’
So the fault is in Freeway, not your server.
Try changing your page from Automatic encoding to Unicode explicitly:
click on the page, so nothing’s selected, and click on the Output tab
of the page inspector. Near the bottom is a picking list labeled
Encoding. Change this from Automatic to Unicode 5.0 UTF-8. Freeway is
supposed to set to Unicode when you have your page set to Automatic,
but apparently it’s not doing that.