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UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 proposal again

Thread began 4/30/2010 7:58 am by this_is_me | Last modified 5/11/2010 10:48 am by Jason Byrnes | 2781 views | 8 replies |

this_is_me

UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 proposal again

I made a proposal to change these settings some while ago. I would like to urge this again.
If using the wizard it creates pages with:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
Mind: This old-fashioned setting does not even contain the Euro sign! What would you guys say if you had to put &Dollar; instead of $ ?
If you like the movie "Blueberry Nights", you might wonder what the name &#1050;&#1083;&#1102;&#1095; on the Coffee bar door meant?
Yes: Key.
Have fun to show this on a ISO 8859-1 coded page!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

what version of Dreamweaver / DataAssist are you using. All of my DataAssist pages using DWCS4 and DA 2.0.6 are creating using the utf-8 character set:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

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this_is_me

my version

DW CS3 with Data Assist 2.0.6 on a WIN7 / 64 box
Strange, this happens every time I use the wizard for creating search / results / ... pages. UTF-8 is the standard (default encoding)

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

are you using ASP as the server language, I just noticed in the source for one of the DA files, it is forcing iso-8859-1 for asp pages.


look in:
configuration/Shared/WebAssist/ApplicationBuilder/AppBuilder_Object.js

try changing line 1053-1069

if(this.docType == 'ASP-JS'){ 
var dom = WA_getDocumentDOM( WA_getConfigurationPath('/DocumentTypes/NewDocuments/Default_JS.asp'));
dom.setCharSet('iso-8859-1');
dom.documentElement.outerHTML = dom.documentElement.outerHTML.replace(/charset="/, 'charset=iso-8859-1"');
updatePageDirective(dom);
}else if(this.docType == 'ASP-VB'){
var dom = WA_getDocumentDOM( WA_getConfigurationPath('/DocumentTypes/NewDocuments/Default_VB.asp'));
dom.setCharSet('iso-8859-1');
dom.documentElement.outerHTML = dom.documentElement.outerHTML.replace(/charset="/, 'charset=iso-8859-1"');
updatePageDirective(dom);
}else{
var dom = dw.getNewDocumentDOM();
}




to:

if(this.docType == 'ASP-JS'){ 
var dom = dw.getNewDocumentDOM();
}else if(this.docType == 'ASP-VB'){
var dom = dw.getNewDocumentDOM();
}else{
var dom = dw.getNewDocumentDOM();
}
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this_is_me

Thanks

I found these lines and changed them but I use php server model...

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tom250037Beta Tester

How about changing it in Dreamweaver preferences?
Edit > Preferences > New Document
Change Default encoding to Unicode (UTF-8)

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this_is_me

Thanks

but this of course is the first setting I check before I start working with a newly installed Dreamweaver.
As I said, I very often need to build pages for different languages. And ISO-8859-1 definitely is not an option for such a task.

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tom250037Beta Tester

I thought you had probably tried that, but I thought I would check. Sometimes people miss the obvious. I know I have done that myself.

good luck on this one!

Tom

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Hmmm, not sure what the problem is. I'm going to log this as a bug to have our engineers look into fixing it in the next update to data assist, it should use the default character set you select in the settings.

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