Comments on: Character encoding basics http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/ You have found Friendly Bit, a web development blog. I focus on client side technologies like CSS, HTML and Javascript. You find my articles below and categories to the right. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Emil Stenströmhttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-7677 Emil Stenström Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:32:23 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-7677 @Rasmus Kaj: Thanks for the clarifications :) @Rasmus Kaj: Thanks for the clarifications :)

]]> By: Rasmus Kajhttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-7673 Rasmus Kaj Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:12:51 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-7673 Actually, at first computer people thought 128 characters to be enough, and thats what ASCII is. The eight bit was used for checksumming or (often) not at all. There was localized versions of the 7-bit character set, such as the one replacing [|]{\} with the Swedish åäöÅÄÖ.After a while, to important steps were taken; 1) The eight bit was used, doubling the number of characters, and 2) ways of specifying the character set in (mainly) email started to develop.From that, the story goes pretty much as you tell it ... :-) Actually, at first computer people thought 128 characters to be enough, and thats what ASCII is. The eight bit was used for checksumming or (often) not at all. There was localized versions of the 7-bit character set, such as the one replacing [|]{\} with the Swedish åäöÅÄÖ.

After a while, to important steps were taken; 1) The eight bit was used, doubling the number of characters, and 2) ways of specifying the character set in (mainly) email started to develop.

From that, the story goes pretty much as you tell it … :-)

]]> By: Nitahttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-6128 Nita Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:10:33 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-6128 "So, rely on your server to send the right encoding."That's easy to say, but not everyone has the power to set server headers ;)Here's a fun article on the inner workings of character sets, if anyone's interested: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html “So, rely on your server to send the right encoding.”

That’s easy to say, but not everyone has the power to set server headers ;)

Here’s a fun article on the inner workings of character sets, if anyone’s interested: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

]]> By: Emil Stenströmhttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-6125 Emil Stenström Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:10:29 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-6125 @Mark McDonnell: That means that you don't send *any* encoding at all (not that uncommon). Have a look at the example code for you language and add it to your main template. No need to keep the browser guessing what encoding you use. @Mark McDonnell: That means that you don’t send *any* encoding at all (not that uncommon). Have a look at the example code for you language and add it to your main template. No need to keep the browser guessing what encoding you use.

]]> By: Mark McDonnellhttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-6117 Mark McDonnell Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:47:41 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-6117 Strange, I used the "View Response Headers" on one of our websites:http://www.firetuck.co.uk/Home.asp...and found that the response headers didn't show anything for Content-Type OR Content-Encoding.Content-Type did show "text/html" but nothing about the character encoding.Any suggestions? Strange, I used the “View Response Headers” on one of our websites:

http://www.firetuck.co.uk/Home.asp

…and found that the response headers didn’t show anything for Content-Type OR Content-Encoding.

Content-Type did show “text/html” but nothing about the character encoding.

Any suggestions?

]]> By: Birgithttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5865 Birgit Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:36:55 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5865 Hey, thanks a lot, this really helps! I never knew about the "View response headers" option and never understood why I have to encode certain characters although I set the encoding in the HTML header...now I know :) Hey, thanks a lot, this really helps! I never knew about the “View response headers” option and never understood why I have to encode certain characters although I set the encoding in the HTML header…now I know :)

]]> By: Emil Stenströmhttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5723 Emil Stenström Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:53:07 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5723 @Juani: Yeah, I have some experience with manually maintaining local languages with entities.UTF-8 is just way better :) @Juani: Yeah, I have some experience with manually maintaining local languages with entities.UTF-8 is just way better :)

]]> By: Juanihttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5674 Juani Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:17:27 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5674 Hi Emil! Thank you very much for this article! Until now I was manually/automatic encoding my chars (I develop in spanish) and was really painfull, now I only have to save it in UTF-8... simply brilliant! Hi Emil! Thank you very much for this article! Until now I was manually/automatic encoding my chars (I develop in spanish) and was really painfull, now I only have to save it in UTF-8… simply brilliant!

]]> By: zcorpanhttp://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5670 zcorpan Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:49:28 +0000 http://friendlybit.com/other/character-encoding-basics/#comment-5670 Python is without the semi-colon. ;-) Python is without the semi-colon. ;-)

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