Comments on: Do you know your character encodings? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Prabhat http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-866680 Prabhat Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:46:19 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-866680 Good article to come out from the enigmatic world of Character Encoding.Easy to learn and grasp .The contents are presented in very lucid way even if a novice technical personal can understand about different character encoding system. Good article to come out from the enigmatic world of Character Encoding.Easy to learn and grasp .The contents are presented in very lucid way even if a novice technical personal can understand about different character encoding system.

]]> By: PHPGuyZim|babwe http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-856927 PHPGuyZim|babwe Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:10:19 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-856927 Been struggling with encoding and 'funny characters' in my text for weeks now. Good read. I am working on a web crawler, php/mysql/linux. EVerything now works fine, but no matter what i try, i het the wierd 'a and two diamonds' in place of single quotes. Any ideas? My output header is utf8, the meta tag is set to charset utf8, database columns are utf8_general_ci all php script files are saved in utf8 format. :( I'm stumped Been struggling with encoding and ‘funny characters’ in my text for weeks now. Good read. I am working on a web crawler, php/mysql/linux. EVerything now works fine, but no matter what i try, i het the wierd ‘a and two diamonds’ in place of single quotes. Any ideas? My output header is utf8, the meta tag is set to charset utf8, database columns are utf8_general_ci all php script files are saved in utf8 format. :( I’m stumped

]]> By: Shripad http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-766191 Shripad Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:36:23 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-766191 This article really helped a lot. Though I have one question. I understand that the Charset Encoding for HTML page (display) and Form inside a page is controlled as one unit. What should I do if I have to submit a form using another charset ( Say ISO-8859-8). The form needs to display in WINDOWS-1252 or WINDOWS-1252. This article really helped a lot. Though I have one question. I understand that the Charset Encoding for HTML page (display) and Form inside a page is controlled as one unit. What should I do if I have to submit a form using another charset ( Say ISO-8859-8). The form needs to display in WINDOWS-1252 or WINDOWS-1252.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-361923 Anonymous Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:54:32 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-361923 Really nice article. Easy to read, easy to follow... I am waiting for the next one. '<b>'Rol'</b>' Really nice article. Easy to read, easy to follow… I am waiting for the next one.
‘‘Rol’‘

]]> By: DMP http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-217423 DMP Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:13:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-217423 A very good article! I now use UTF-8 on my site and have set the charset of my ajax script to iso so the alerts windows in js works fine. A very good article!
I now use UTF-8 on my site and have set the charset of my ajax script to iso so the alerts windows in js works fine.

]]> By: sd1978 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-87941 sd1978 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:56:40 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-87941 Hi I am Sourabh, consider a variable A = abcd I want a code which should convert the "EACH" characters in that variable first to ASCII code. Then add 2 to it and then again convert it to a Character and store it in database. Like first it will convert 'a' to its respective ASCII value, then it will add 2 in it and then again it will convert that value in Character and save it. This process is generally called as Encryption. Kindly send me a code on it. The language is VB.NET and the database is SQL SERVER 2000. Hi I am Sourabh,
consider a variable A = abcd
I want a code which should convert the “EACH” characters in that variable first to ASCII code.
Then add 2 to it and then again convert it to a Character and store it in database.

Like first it will convert ‘a’ to its respective ASCII value, then it will add 2 in it and then again it will convert that value in Character and save it.

This process is generally called as Encryption. Kindly send me a code on it. The language is VB.NET and the database is SQL SERVER 2000.

]]> By: Interesting article on character encodings - Wireless Forums and Wifi Forum http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-43891 Interesting article on character encodings - Wireless Forums and Wifi Forum Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:02:37 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-43891 [...] Interesting article on character encodings SitePoint Blogs » Do you know your character encodings? [...]

]]> By: otro blog más » Unos cuantos de desarrollo web (LXXXIX) http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-24448 otro blog más » Unos cuantos de desarrollo web (LXXXIX) Sat, 20 May 2006 19:53:51 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-24448 [...] Y para cerrar, un par de lecturas recomendadas: Do you know your character encodings? y un diagrama sobre Flickr y la experiencia de usuario. [...] [...] Y para cerrar, un par de lecturas recomendadas: Do you know your character encodings? y un diagrama sobre Flickr y la experiencia de usuario. [...]

]]> By: SitePoint Blogs » AJAX Gotchas http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-22434 SitePoint Blogs » AJAX Gotchas Wed, 10 May 2006 02:05:53 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-22434 [...] Among the list of gotchas was this gem that lends greater weight to my recent coverage of character encodings: Ajax uses UTF-8. Normal forms are sent using the encoding of the parent page. Thus a SJIS encoded page will default to sending form content encoded in SJIS. Ajax submitted forms on the other hand will be sent as UTF-8. If for some strange reason, UTF-8 is not the character set of choice for the server, this will require a solution such as the server recognizing and translating UTF-8 responses to a desired character encoding. [...] [...] Among the list of gotchas was this gem that lends greater weight to my recent coverage of character encodings: Ajax uses UTF-8. Normal forms are sent using the encoding of the parent page. Thus a SJIS encoded page will default to sending form content encoded in SJIS. Ajax submitted forms on the other hand will be sent as UTF-8. If for some strange reason, UTF-8 is not the character set of choice for the server, this will require a solution such as the server recognizing and translating UTF-8 responses to a desired character encoding. [...]

]]> By: Shauna Fjeld http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/comment-page-1/#comment-16059 Shauna Fjeld Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:21:35 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/15/do-you-know-your-character-encodings/#comment-16059 The clearest explanation of character encoding I have ever seen! Thanks! The clearest explanation of character encoding I have ever seen!
Thanks!

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