character encoding; choosing a char-set

cyberdread · 05-11-2005, 03:52 PM

I cant find a guide to choosing the right charset for my meta tag to add to my html. I also need one for my external stylesheets.
How do I choose a char set? I cant find anything that actually tells me.
is it based on the language I type in? the functions I use in my code? my star sign??? what?? how? ahhhh

axilant · 05-11-2005, 05:29 PM

charsets are the text of the site. Some sites can auto detect this and switch char-sets and show up in multiple languages.

cyberdread · 05-12-2005, 03:06 AM

so if someone in china with a chinese keyboard typed chinese characters into their website. and my browser goes there and reads the charset and changes it to english characters..... and shows me a bunch of jumbled up english letters that dont make any sense......
no dosnt sound too useful to me.
but everyone seems to be doing it so what am I missing?
I still dont see it.
maybe when the smoke clears......

df-sean · 05-14-2005, 05:37 PM

I don't understand exactly what it is that you're trying to accomplish. Can you please explain how you want your site to behave -- maybe I can help.

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axilant Account Closed Join Date: May 2004 Location: /etc/passwd Posts: 2,194 0.00 NP$ (Donate)	charsets are the text of the site. Some sites can auto detect this and switch char-sets and show up in multiple languages.

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cyberdread NamePros Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 29 24.00 NP$ (Donate)	so if someone in china with a chinese keyboard typed chinese characters into their website. and my browser goes there and reads the charset and changes it to english characters..... and shows me a bunch of jumbled up english letters that dont make any sense...... no dosnt sound too useful to me. but everyone seems to be doing it so what am I missing? I still dont see it. maybe when the smoke clears......

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