Blogs - Text Storage Format?

po0k

Are they stored in Unicode or what?

Euro symbols, accents etc. don't display correctly.

Example
~€30 should be ~€30

Is there a trick I'm missing?

steveland?

Also I think now and again there's slashes before the 's, mayhaps there's a rogue addslashes() function at play

Bard

I see euro symbols in your blog. Maybe its your browser or your Windows locality setup thats the problem..?

Tar.Aldarion

Ya I can't put a ' it always comes out as \

GoneShootin

Displays € fine for me on foxywoxy

steveland?

Hmm, the new thing seems to be displaying a ? instead of a ' on the boards main page where the newest entries are shown

IE7 in college

po0k

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Regional settings are set to "English (Ireland)"/Irish on everything, default language for Unicode programs is English (Ireland) etc. etc.

po0k

Bard wrote:

I see euro symbols in your blog. Maybe its your browser or your Windows locality setup thats the problem..?

Well if I can see the € euro symbol in this thread, but not in my blog, then it would point to the blog system as being the culprit as the same machine and browser is used to view and post both.
Euro symbol etc. is fine in the real-time preview when writing blog entries, and from what I recall, seems fine the first time I load my updated blog frontpage but any subsequent visits have the fruity characters garbled.

nesf

I've had the same issue with € symbols etc. *shrugs*

po0k

*boink*

Cloud

Are we talking old blog posts or new ones?

If they're old ones, maybe they weren't imported properly...

kaimera

you need to set the page encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) when viewing the blog if chars aren't displaying properly.

I get the same issues with certain chars on my own blog at times.

btw, showing as € on your blog

po0k

New entries John.

Just changed the encoding from Western to UTF8 (I thought FF defaulted to UTF-8) and it's showing correctly. Did the same for this page and it flipped my example from the first post.

Strangeness.
How would I go about ensuring that every page I view is rendered using the correct codepage? Is there not some metadata or header that specifies this for every page?

Nevyn

I have the same issues with mine it seems to be the use of the '

kaimera

in this admin page, it shows what the default encoding of yer blog is
http://blogs.boards.ie/*username*/wp-admin/options-reading.php

Encoding for pages and feeds:

it's default is UTF8 but something's a foot given it still acts up at times. Only in FF tho, IE shows it fine.

po0k

So ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 then? :v: