Re: Chinese characters in BBEdit?

* Chris von Rosenvinge wrote:
>I use the BBTidy plug-in (1.0b10-01 Dec 02, © W3C 
>1998-2002, Terry Teague 1998-2004) in BBEdit 
>8.2.2, and it has a bug that renders the tidied 
>file in Chinese characters. As a workaround, I 
>save the document in UTF-16 coding. At this point 
>I can reopen the document and it reads normally 
>in BBEdit, but the Chinese characters show up in 
>a browser. I then zap non-ASCII characters and 
>resave the file in Latin 1 coding. It finally 
>reads normally both in BBEdit and in a browser.

The best way to deal with this is probably to do everything in UTF-8 and
properly declare the encoding. Tidy has a -utf8 switch to say that the
input is in utf-8 and that utf-8 should be used for the output, BBEdit
probably has a setting to say that the document is utf-8 encoded and you
need to add a <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=
utf-8"> to the <head> of the document. This should just work then, no
matter which characters you use in the document.
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Received on Monday, 1 August 2005 08:41:59 UTC