- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:11:01 -0400
- To: <cdwise@wiserways.com>, "'Mery Richard'" <RMERY@mail.dstl.gov.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org>
Thanks for the update - I haven't had a chance to work with Expression Web. I'm glad Expression is improving its UTF-8 support. Even when FrontPage was in Unicode mode, there still seemed to be some odd character issues. Cheers Elizabeth At 11:29 AM -0500 3/20/09, Cheryl D Wise wrote: >Correction - by default Expression Web has always defaulted to UTF-8 >encoding. This caused a lot of problems for people using PHP with Expression >Web in the first version because Expression added a BOM to every page with >UTF-8 encoding and PHP pages would show three Greek characters. In version 2 >the ability to turn off the BOM while still using UTF-8 encoding resolved >that issue. > >Dreamweaver defaults to UTF-8 as well. > >FrontPage did default to Windows encoding but even there you could change >the default to UTF-8. The number of people using FrontPage has been >decreasing significantly since it is no longer offered for sale by >Microsoft. > >Cheryl D Wise > >April Session Classes http://starttoweb.com: >Introduction to CSS >Introduction to Expression Web > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt > >However, you do need to make sure you really are >generating Unicode. Dreamweaver and Notepad >(Windows)/BBEdit (Mac) do a good job once the set >up is finished - but FrontPage, Word or >Microsoft Expression tend to be set for Win-1252 >(not a reliable Web standard). > >Some set up instructions are below > >http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/dreamweaver.html >(Dreamweaver) >http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/frontpage.html >(Front Page) >http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/export.html >(Notepad/BBEdit) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS Penn State University ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) 210 Rider Building (formerly Rider II) 227 W. Beaver Avenue State College, PA 16801-4819 http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu http://tlt.psu.edu
Received on Friday, 20 March 2009 17:11:55 UTC