Hi,
Rails doesn''t force you to write anything. You can declare whatever
doctype you want.
The doctype shouldn''t have anything to do with what character encoding
you use. You should take care of the character encoding in the meta tags.
|<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" />|
In xhtml there are three different doctypes that you can use
1.strict
2.transitional
3.frameset
You will most likely want to use transitional.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
For more info, check out this small xhtml primer.
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/accessibility/xhtmlexplained.html
-Eric Goodwin
ericgoodwin.com
Warren Seltzer wrote:> I was simply trying to write the DOCTYPE line at the top for UTF-8 and
> got confused.
>
> What doctype do I use with rails for utf-8 files?
>
> If I put in all the damn closing tags on paragraphs and hr and br and
> all that will the stuff pass xhml inspection, or will rails insert
> something I haven'' yet noticed.
>
> Warren
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