Unable to set correct default text code

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Unable to set correct default text code

To enable accented characters to display properly I need to use Western Latin 1 as the default. When I set this manually in "view" it works but although it is set as the default preference, it always reverts to something else when I open Safari.

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Posted on May 25, 2006 10:19 PM

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Answer 1

Jpfresno

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May 25, 2006 11:43 PM in response to Peter Dean

Hi Peter, Welcome Back,

"Special Characters" is not sufficient? You know some are built in like é is option e. There's some place to find all those.

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Peter Dean Author

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May 26, 2006 12:04 AM in response to Jpfresno

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I was referring only to the way Safari displays accented characters on the page, not inputting text.

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Jpfresno

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May 26, 2006 12:08 AM in response to Peter Dean

Too Vast For Me. See below. Good Luck. JP

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Peter Dean Author

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May 26, 2006 12:16 AM in response to Peter Dean

Your slogan isn't very helpful either. The question is quite specific, not general, and was posted only in the Safari forum.

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Tom Gewecke

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May 26, 2006 11:43 AM in response to Peter Dean

To enable accented characters to display properly I
need to use Western Latin 1 as the default.

Not true in general. Any web page which conforms to standards should contain code that tells your browser what encoding to use. This overrides anything you select in the preferences. Only pages with no such code are affected by the prefs.

Can you provide examples of some pages that are causing you problems?

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Peter Dean Author

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May 26, 2006 2:31 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

That seems to answer part of my problem. I am not sure how to provide an example but it occurs with MyYahoo in English, when part of the display is in French. I get the black diamonds with question marks. If I manually change to ISO Latin 1, the French text is correctly displayed. However, when I open Safari again, the sme problem reoccurs.

If I go to MyYahoo in French, I do not have the problem.

Thanks for your help.

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Tom Gewecke

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May 26, 2006 2:40 PM in response to Peter Dean

That seems to answer part of my problem. I am not
sure how to provide an example but it occurs with
MyYahoo in English, when part of the display is in
French. I get the black diamonds with question marks.
If I manually change to ISO Latin 1, the French text
is correctly displayed. However, when I open Safari
again, the sme problem reoccurs.

This would seem to indicate that the MyYahoo English page has html forcing a different encoding than the French text. You can check what it is by doing View > View Source and looking for the "charset" in the first few lines. I suspect it may be UTF-8. Unless Yahoo lets you set the encoding of your page in its preferences somewhere, I do see anything you can do about it.

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