HTML Entities

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Evoleto, Oct 12, 2005.

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    Hello,

    I use a particular script that is not very customizable displaying pages in two languages: English and German.

    In the database I coded the german charcters as HTML entities.

    It works fine in the pages, but in the title it displays the code, which is not very user friendly. I also tried numeric entities, but I get the same result.

    The used html charset is iso-8859-1.

    Any advice to fix the title of the page?

    Thank you!
     
    Evoleto, Oct 12, 2005 IP
  2. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    If I understand you correctly...

    You cannot have HTML formatting in your title tags.
     
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  3. Evoleto

    Evoleto Well-Known Member

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    Ok, but how can I get the special german characters into the title?
     
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    Evoleto Well-Known Member

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    I forgot to mention I tried to use HTML entities after the regular ASCII german characters were displayed as a question mark (?).

    The solution was quite easy, I commented the default character set from the Apache configuration (httpd.conf):

    
# Specify a default charset for all content served; this enables
# interpretation of all content as UTF-8 by default.  To use the
# default browser choice (ISO-8859-1), or to allow the META tags
# in HTML content to override this choice, comment out this
# directive:
#
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
    Code (markup):
    The AddDefaultCharset directive was causing the trouble.
     
    Evoleto, Oct 13, 2005 IP