Dealing with character sets

[Thom McGrath]

I have a text area that people should type in (duh) which will later be
displayed for other users via HTML. I've taken care of the HTML aspect
in a pretty cool way, but I worry about character sets now.

Everything works for me, but I use UTF-8. When the form is submitted,
how do I know what character set the data is coming in? I need to know
this to perform htmlentities on the data and have it work properly.

All my pages are defined as UTF-8. Would this mean that the data coming
from the form also be UTF-8?
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ut f-8">

Finally, when I need to put the content back into the textarea for
editing, do I need to use the original character set with
html_entity_dec ode, or can I have it output in a new character set?

I've dealt with character sets in REALbasic before, and have a good
grasp of what they are and such. But I have no experience with
third-party browsers and all that jazz.

Basically, what do I do?

--
- Thom McGrath
Head of the ZeeTox Project and lead programmer for The ZAZ
Contact me with iChat or AOL Instant Messenger: zazTekcor

[John Dunlop]

Re: Dealing with character sets

Thom McGrath wrote:
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> I've dealt with character sets in REALbasic before, and have a good
> grasp of what they are and such. But I have no experience with
> third-party browsers and all that jazz.[/color]

That's a huge and complicated arena, even for someone like yourself
who's covered the groundwork. Have fun!

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html

--
Jock

[Thom McGrath]

Re: Dealing with character sets

On 2004-02-24 05:36:49 -0500, John Dunlop <john+usenet@jo hndunlop.info> said:
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> Thom McGrath wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I've dealt with character sets in REALbasic before, and have a good
>> grasp of what they are and such. But I have no experience with
>> third-party browsers and all that jazz.[/color]
>
> That's a huge and complicated arena, even for someone like yourself
> who's covered the groundwork. Have fun!
>
> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/...form-i18n.html[/color]


Don't I know it! I love the web, but sometimes I hate it so much.

--
- Thom McGrath
Head of the ZeeTox Project and lead programmer for The ZAZ
Contact me with iChat or AOL Instant Messenger: zazTekcor

[Chung Leong]

Re: Dealing with character sets


Uzytkownik "Thom McGrath" <thom@thezaz.co m> napisal w wiadomosci
news:2004022321 401116807%thom@ thezazcom...[color=blue]
> Everything works for me, but I use UTF-8. When the form is submitted,
> how do I know what character set the data is coming in? I need to know
> this to perform htmlentities on the data and have it work properly.
>
> All my pages are defined as UTF-8. Would this mean that the data coming
> from the form also be UTF-8?
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ut f-8">[/color]

Yes. The data coming in will have the same encoding as the page that does
the post.