Override codepage

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5 total messages Started by B�rge Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:55

#11

Author: B�rge
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:55

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Hi,
i am using nation specific characters in a javascript function that
uses document.write, i.e 
document.write('nation specific characters ���')

This works well locally, but not when deployed on the server. I can
change the codepage on the development server, and i would work, but i
can't do this on the production server, where UTF-8 is used.

Is there somehow this can be done programmatic?
I have tried to use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">

on the page that included the .js file, but it didn't help.

Any idea?

Re: Override codepage

#12

Author: Jim Ley
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:55

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On 22 Jul 2002 11:55:53 +0100, borge.lotre@bekk.no (B�rge) wrote:

>Hi,
>i am using nation specific characters in a javascript function that
>uses document.write, i.e 
>document.write('nation specific characters ���')
>
>This works well locally, but not when deployed on the server. I can
>change the codepage on the development server, and i would work, but i
>can't do this on the production server, where UTF-8 is used.

So why not just use UTF 8 characters?  it contains everything your
"nation specific character set does", and is more supported.

Jim.
-- 
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/

Re: Override codepage

#13

Author: B�rge
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:20

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This is because users are free to type whatever they want and i can't
control what characters they are using. It can be norwegian, german,
arabic and any other language. 

--B�rge.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:55:11 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:

>On 22 Jul 2002 11:55:53 +0100, borge.lotre@bekk.no (B�rge) wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>i am using nation specific characters in a javascript function that
>>uses document.write, i.e 
>>document.write('nation specific characters ���')
>>
>>This works well locally, but not when deployed on the server. I can
>>change the codepage on the development server, and i would work, but i
>>can't do this on the production server, where UTF-8 is used.
>
>So why not just use UTF 8 characters?  it contains everything your
>"nation specific character set does", and is more supported.
>
>Jim.
>-- 
>comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/
>

Re: Override codepage

#14

Author: Jim Ley
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:23

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On 22 Jul 2002 12:20:49 +0100, borge.lotre@bekk.no (B�rge) wrote:

>This is because users are free to type whatever they want and i can't
>control what characters they are using. It can be norwegian, german,
>arabic and any other language. 

Then you can't choose a character set can you? your only option will
be UTF-8, so you'll have to map them yourselves, a HTML document can't
use more than one character set in any case.

Jim.
-- 
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/

Re: Override codepage

#15

Author: B�rge
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:03

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It seems like the browser can't desice which encoding to use. If i
type a norwegian charachter in the text the encoding is set to UTF-8
in the browser and everything works.

Thanks.

--B�rge.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:23:14 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote:

>On 22 Jul 2002 12:20:49 +0100, borge.lotre@bekk.no (B�rge) wrote:
>
>>This is because users are free to type whatever they want and i can't
>>control what characters they are using. It can be norwegian, german,
>>arabic and any other language. 
>
>Then you can't choose a character set can you? your only option will
>be UTF-8, so you'll have to map them yourselves, a HTML document can't
>use more than one character set in any case.
>
>Jim.
>-- 
>comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/
>

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