Re: Non-standard characters on Web

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Hi Dan:

Personally, I am unwilling to spend lots of money on Dream Weaver, because I
just don't use it often enough.

What if usually do is save directly out of Word, but I set the encoding to
UTF-8. That will support almost any character in the known universe :-)

Go to File>Save as in Word, (or File>Save as Web Page...) and make sure you
click the Web Options button on the dialog that appears.

On the Encoding tab, set the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).

Word will then write an "Encoding" line into the top of the HTML, which will
enable any browser to correctly recognise the characters in the file.

You can achieve the same thing with various other encoding, but all of them
have some disadvantage. If you use a Macintosh encoding, Windows browsers
will play up. If you use a Windows encoding, Mac browsers may struggle. If
you use any of the others, you may get variable results.

Unicode UTF-8 will work properly in all but a tiny fraction of browsers on
very old computers :-)

Now: just for completeness, I recommend that you avoid "Unicode" and
"Unicode (Big endian)". The former uses 16-bit characters for everything,
which may keep the purists happy, but it results in files almost exactly
twice the size. The latter uses a reversed byte-order, which is technically
OK but may lead to spectacular failures with some of the less full-featured
browsers.

Cheers


On 19/7/07 10:21 AM, in article
1184806302.120681.258690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dan"
<dkennedy56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 16, 6:48 pm, korvent...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Corentin Cras-Méneur)
wrote:
little_creature <litttle.creature....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hiya,
I would recommend you to learn HTML. The HTML itself it's really very
easy. Word puts a lot of mess when it generates the HTML files. It can
result at files 10x times greater. The encoding sounds reasonable,
particularly if the sever will be PC-based.

I couldn't agree more. Most of the time you'll be better off this way,
You could also use simple apps to create the HTML for you (like N|Vu,
free):http://www.nvu.com/index.php

Corentin

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By the way, I do use SeaMonkey for some stuff, but I get the same
problems with quotation marks, dashes and accents that I get with
Word. So I guess that's non-standard, too. <Sigh.>


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