A very basic HTML question

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    I bought a script and it has has meta tags in it which are very basic:

    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1254">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-9">

    does that mean anything (like "look in the website text for the content") or is it useless and I need to change it? It's on every page like that.

    thanks
     
    thatdguy, Jun 8, 2007 IP
  2. Katy

    Katy Moderator Staff

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    Don't remove it. It's there for the special characters encoding.
     
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  3. briansol

    briansol Well-Known Member

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    Assuming your site is in turkish... remove the first one. you should only have one, and 8859-9 is more universal that anything "windows" and fits the turkish char set.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-9
     
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    You should to use 8859-9

    -Sadece ikinci satırı kullanman yeterli, ilkini silebilirsin. Bununla tarayıcıya site içeriğinde türkçeye özel karakterlerin olduğunu söylüyorsun.
     
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    Either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 will work. Just make sure that you save the Web page with the same character encoding you declared in your META tag, and that the encoding you saved it in matches that sent by the HTTP headers from your server. :)
     
    Dan Schulz, Jun 8, 2007 IP