Rails - Apr 2007 - displaying euro sign? browser displays as question mark

could anyone tell me how to get the euro sign to display properly?  it
shows up in my *.rhtml files as <80>500 (should be $500, with the $
replaced with euro sign) when viewed in vi, and displays as a question
mark in browser.

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Joe Zz wrote:
> could anyone tell me how to get the euro sign to display properly?  it
> shows up in my *.rhtml files as <80>500 (should be $500, with the $
> replaced with euro sign) when viewed in vi, and displays as a question
> mark in browser.
Hi Joe!

The html encoding should match the file encoding.
For example if your default encoding for your text editor is ISO-2022-JP
and your html is encoded as UTF-8 your text would be displayed 
incorrectly
in the web browser. Most editors and IDEs could be configured to use 
whatever
encoding you like.

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On 10 Apr 2007, at 15:09, Joe Zz wrote:
> could anyone tell me how to get the euro sign to display properly?  it
> shows up in my *.rhtml files as <80>500 (should be $500, with the $
> replaced with euro sign) when viewed in vi, and displays as a question
> mark in browser.
How is the Euro symbol written in your rhtml?

If you typed it directly as  a single character in your text editor,  
you are probably running into a mismatch between the character- 
encoding of your text editor and that specified for the HTML.

The safer way is to use a named entity, e.g. &euro;

Regards,
Andy Stewart

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Andrew Stewart wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2007, at 15:09, Joe Zz wrote:
>> could anyone tell me how to get the euro sign to display properly?  it
>> shows up in my *.rhtml files as <80>500 (should be $500, with the
$
>> replaced with euro sign) when viewed in vi, and displays as a question
>> mark in browser.
> 
> How is the Euro symbol written in your rhtml?
> 
> If you typed it directly as  a single character in your text editor,
> you are probably running into a mismatch between the character-
> encoding of your text editor and that specified for the HTML.
> 
> The safer way is to use a named entity, e.g. &euro;
> 
> Regards,
> Andy Stewart
so i understand, &euro;500 will be read by browsers universally as (euro
sign)500 i.e $500? what i did was simply copy/paste then find/replace
using a symbol from another site. im not a web designer nor even a rails
developer... network engineering is my thing... so character encoding is
not really up my alley. apache is our front end and is more my speed but
i knew that wasn''t causing the problem... im gonna try the named
entity,
wil let you know how it goes.

thanks much

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On 13 Apr 2007, at 23:31, Joe Zz wrote:
> so i understand, €500 will be read by browsers universally as  
> (euro
> sign)500 i.e $500?
Yes.
> what i did was simply copy/paste then find/replace
> using a symbol from another site. im not a web designer nor even a  
> rails
> developer... network engineering is my thing... so character  
> encoding is
> not really up my alley. apache is our front end and is more my  
> speed but
> i knew that wasn''t causing the problem... im gonna try the named  
> entity,
> wil let you know how it goes.
This article is slightly relevant and may be of interest:

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/

Regards,
Andy Stewart

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Andrew Stewart wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2007, at 23:31, Joe Zz wrote:
>> so i understand, €500 will be read by browsers universally as
>> (euro
>> sign)500 i.e $500?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> what i did was simply copy/paste then find/replace
>> using a symbol from another site. im not a web designer nor even a  
>> rails
>> developer... network engineering is my thing... so character  
>> encoding is
>> not really up my alley. apache is our front end and is more my  
>> speed but
>> i knew that wasn''t causing the problem... im gonna try the
named
>> entity,
>> wil let you know how it goes.
> 
> This article is slightly relevant and may be of interest:
> 
> http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/
> 
> Regards,
> Andy Stewart
the € did the trick, but i will definitley check out that link as 
well.

thanks Andy,
Joe

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