Ok, I think the title pretty much sums the question up nicely. Basically, I’ve written an help file on my windows machine in HTML, so it includes characters like the following:
®, ', ", ...
Obviously it displays fine on Windows, but when I copy the file to my Mac and try to view it the characters above turn jibberish and look foriegn. I could type them on my Mac and save it, but I’m just worried that I need to do something to prevent the same thing from happening on other computers/environments.
If anybody knows how I can stop this from happening, as easily as possible, I’d be greatful to know. Thanks in advance…
Make sure your HTML file is saved as UTF8 and use the UTF8 meta tag:
To save a file as UTF-8, open it in using NotePad and choose “save as”, then make sure encoding is set as UTF-8.
To add the UTF-8 meta tag to your HTML file, just add the following line in the “head” section:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>UTF8 is designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in UTF-16 and UTF-32. See: Wikipedia