Down here in South America, you can imagine we have to deal with this
problem of character encoding all the time.
It is not that UTF-8 is better than ISO-8859-1, or vice-versa, any more than
French is better than Spanish. UTF-8 is more like an English, which is
spoken (for better or worse) as the lengua franca most anyplace, while
ISO-8859-1 is Latin specific (can''t handle Chinese).
But...
You have to make up your mind. If you go with UTF-8, then when you edit your
HTML, etc., files, you have to save files with UTF-8 encoding. If you go
with ISO-8859-1, then you better make sure that your MySQL, etc., are all on
the same boat.
Even Windows notepad now saves UTF-8 files. So it is not a question of this
or that editor, but rather how to guarante
In the case of many clients, they are using iso-8859-1, which means, when I
edit html files with Quanta, I must load the files, immediately set the
encoding to iso-8859-1, make a quick change and save it, then go on with
confidence that my stuff won''t get messed up.
The "Microsoft extensions" to ASCII are a real headache, when
importing
files into, say, Quark Express which has no idea of what a wide dash is, or
what single quotes are, etc.
That''s why there is a tendency towards UTF-8, just as this list is in
English.
In RadRails / Eclipse, you can set the encoding of your files, to a default
or file specific encoding (it also recognizes, for better or worse, what is
the default encoding of your system).
Another thing is, the advantage of a WYSIWYG editor (FCKeditor, TinyMCE,
etc.) is that I CAN cut and paste directly, there is even a filter for Word
(unfortunately not for Open Office embedded CSS header).
Just some thoughts, it is clearly a subject that someone should deal with
thoroughly, most of just get by... pragmatically.
Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar
Message: 3> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:00:29 -0800
> From: Ben Munat <bent@munat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rails] Re: strange charecters after redcloth usage
> To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> Message-ID: <441FA48D.7030706@munat.com>
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>
> > charlie bowman wrote:
> >
> >>I''m using redcloth on my blog to transform my input into
html. Alot of
> >>times if I type "I''ve" I''ll wind up
with "I,ve" except that it''s not a
> >>comma but a very similar charecter. This is really killing my rss
> >>feeds. What''s causing this? How do I fix it?
> >
> charlie bowman wrote:
> > I just figured out that this happens when I cut and paste from open
> > office. How can I stop this?
>
> Um, don''t cut and paste from open office? ;-)
>
> Sorry, I couldn''t resist...
>
> Seriously though, do you have to paste from OO? I''ve seen the same
> aggravation happen with
> people writing their web content in Word and then pasting it into an html
> file.
>
> A good text editor is your friend... someone here just turned me on to
> programmers notepad
> the other day... pretty sweet.
>
> b
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