[pmwiki-users] Greek Utf-8

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Feb 13 08:59:08 CST 2007


On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:01:34AM -0800, Seth Cherney wrote:
> OK, I thought the utf-8 script was only for using utf-8 in pagenames.  I posted to
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/UTF8/GreekDiacritics and everything checks out.
> 
> So, the problem with saxon was that the StaticPageGenerator generates pages in iso-8859-1, not
> utf-8.  Thus, I had to add a declaration to the top of the file:  <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="iso-8859-1"?> (left the rest of decl intact - this is a w3c standard, but broken in IE
> for complex layouts) and all is clear.
> 
> I am using Win XP, Firefox 3 Alpha 2. apache server.  I doubt this is browser dependent, but
> server based.  I can add this declaration, whatever.  
> 
> **BUT, will a linux server still output in this encoding?**

The server generally has little to do with the encoding -- it just outputs
bytes.  As long as the output HTML contains the utf-8 declaration, the browser
will interpret the contents as utf-8.

In short, it should work equally well under Linux.

Pm



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