RE: tictech: word to webpage - fixing the quote marks - any help?

From: Meyer, Karl (kjmeyer@seattleschools.org)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 10:01:01 PDT

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    -tictech message:

    Word 2000 (windows) chooses to set charset=windows-1252" (in the HTML meta
    tags) as the Character set.
     I think it should be "charset=iso-8859-1" this is a standard character set
    for all platforms (I think),
    I am not so sure if the "windows-1252" would turn out funky on other
    operating systems.

    In the Windows version you can go to the Tools menu and choose Options and
    under the General tab click the
    Web Options. Choose the Encoding tab and under "save this document as"
    select either "Western European (ISO)" or
     "US-ASCII" I bet this will solve the problem.

    Knock on Wood.

    Jim Meyer
    kjmeyer@seattleschools.org

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Graham Ford [mailto:fordgj@u.washington.edu]
    Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:15 AM
    To: tic-tech
    Subject: Re: tictech: word to webpage - fixing the quote marks - any help?

    -tictech message:

    I just tested for this problem with Mac Office X Service Release 1 and
    it worked fine. Which browser are you using and have you checked the
    source code of the HTML? If you read the source code as a text file, I
    would be surprised if you didn't find the proper double-quote
    characters.

    My guess is that it is a character encoding issue, and that you need to
    check the encoding that your browser is choosing when it reads the html.

    My test file worked correctly with Safari and Explorer, but both Camino
    and Phoenix (which both are Mozilla/Gecko based) displayed ÒHelloÓ.
    Changing the encoding to Western Roman fixed the issue, it was Latin.
    I'm not sure why you are getting the i-hat character and I am getting
    O-accent, probably a font difference.

    Graham Ford

    fordgj@u.washington.edu
    Network Administrator
    Highland Park Elementary

    (cut - ma)

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