MS Front Page is forcing UTF-8 character set, but browser won't react

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by cavemanlawyer15, Jan 12, 2008.

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    This gentleman wrote a makeshift page in Front Page. He is trying to install the Google Analytics tracking code, and apparently Front Page is forcing a bunch of <div> tags before every line, making the code show up as text on the page. I've tried to help out by just pasting the raw code via FTP. I used Taco HTML Edit, pasted it in, and if I save in plain text, in the finished product I see a bunch of  characters in place of apostrophes and quotes.

    So I did some research and Taco tells me that the page contains characters belonging to the UFT-8 character set, and thus I must save in that format. Apparently I can make the browser aware by dropping this line of text in the <head>:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

    But that didn't do the trick.

    Does anyone know how I can steer around Front Page's default character set, so I can make FTP-side edits in plain text when needed?
     
    cavemanlawyer15, Jan 12, 2008 IP