Help with gibberish (encoding issue...only at first time) !!!

RoyZ

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May 15, 2011, 4:51:17 PM5/15/11

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Hi All,

I have an app which displays some of the content in Hebrew. The
problem is that when I first open the app (it's a browser app) it
displays Gibberish (as if the wrong encoding) and only at the second
time it displays it well.

The problem is of course that not all users installing the app are
aware of this and might uninstall after first try...

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Roy

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PhistucK

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May 16, 2011, 2:07:29 AM5/16/11

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Are you using UTF8?

Are you using Windows-1255?

Are you using both of them?

Is the content dynamically loaded (using AJAX? using iFrames?)?

If so, does it have the correct encoding identifier within its HTTP headers (for AJAX) or within the page through <meta> (for iFrames)?

Do you declare the (correct) encoding identifier on the containing page using <meta>?

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roy zinn

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May 16, 2011, 3:45:10 AM5/16/11

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Hi PhistucK,

Thanks for your reply.

Actually, I'm quite new to all this stuff (new to HTML, JavaScript etc...) and I'm learning "on the fly".

So, I don't have any <meta> tag and didn't declare UTF8 or any other encoding anywhere...

The data is loaded using AJAX, but actually, the loaded data is shown ok.

What is not shown ok (and again, only when the app is opened for the first time, after that it is magically fine) is this line:

$('.divcontainer #timeline').html('<li class="loading"> ...טוען נתונים <img src="images/loader.gif" /></li>'); where the html content in Hebrew is broken.

Can you please let me know how what should the <meta> look like?

Thanks in advance,

Roy

PhistucK

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May 16, 2011, 3:53:56 AM5/16/11

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For Chrome (or any other modern browser that supports HTML5) -

Make sure that all of your files (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) are actually encoded in UTF-8, this will make sure this kind of stuff does not happen.

Also, make use of HTML5, start your HTML file with (before any code, right at the beginning) -

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

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roy zinn

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May 16, 2011, 4:06:14 AM5/16/11

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Hi Again,

Thanks for the quick response!

Just to be on the safe side:

"Make sure that all of your files (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) are actually encoded in UTF-8, this will make sure this kind of stuff does not happen." - Sorry for the pretty dumb question, but how do I make sure they are encoded in UTF-8 (is it by including the above meta in all files)?

Thanks again,

Roy

PhistucK

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May 16, 2011, 4:12:14 AM5/16/11

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See my comments inline.

☆PhistucK

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:06, roy zinn <roy....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Again,

Thanks for the quick response!

Just to be on the safe side:
<meta charset="utf-8"/> - should be at the <head> tag, correct?

That is correct.

"Make sure that all of your files (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) are actually encoded in UTF-8, this will make sure this kind of stuff does not happen." - Sorry for the pretty dumb question, but how do I make sure they are encoded in UTF-8 (is it by including the above meta in all files)?

If you are using Notepad, you can go to File-->Save as... and choose "UTF-8" in the selection box next to "Encoding:".

Other applications have their way of saving text files as UTF-8. Consult their help contents.

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