I'm having trouble when I write accented characters into HTML files; though the accents appear properly in my terminal, they are badly "messed up" in the HTML output. CGI.escape doesn't fix the problem, because these are not "special" characters line < or >, but simply accented e's, o's, etc. I'm assuming the problem has something to do with a character set type mismatch between the file Ruby is writing and what the browser (Firefox) expects, but I'm at a loss as to how to correct it.
Use hexdump -C on the file to see what the actual byte sequences are. If
these are single-byte characters then it's probably ISO-8859-1. If they
are two bytes then it's probably UTF-8.
You can use an XML declaration and/or a <meta> tag in the <head> section
to tell the browser which character set your document is in, and/or get
your web server to set the correct charset in the Content-Type header.
I'm having trouble when I write accented characters into HTML files;
though the accents appear properly in my terminal, they are badly
"messed up" in the HTML output. CGI.escape doesn't fix the problem,
because these are not "special" characters line < or >, but simply
accented e's, o's, etc. I'm assuming the problem has something to do
with a character set type mismatch between the file Ruby is writing
and what the browser (Firefox) expects, but I'm at a loss as to how to
correct it.
Any advice most appreciated,
Start by ensuring that you have the following at the top of <head>
I have some code that detects valid UTF-8 data here:
James Edward Gray II
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On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
Kenneth McDonald wrote:
Any advice most appreciated,
Use hexdump -C on the file to see what the actual byte sequences are. If
these are single-byte characters then it's probably ISO-8859-1. If they
are two bytes then it's probably UTF-8.