Character Encoding issues in VF

T.S. 6.0 ....VF 3

Hi all!

We're scratching our head with an issue in VF that I just can't seem to understand. I have set our vf config file and our PT’s to enforce Latin ISO. But what is happening is that when our users input a Latin character such as “á” we are getting UTF-8 encoding spit out instead of the desired Latin ISO encoding. To my knowledge we are forcing the Latin ISO encoding in the only areas that I know we can.

The A with a high-hat that is spit out instead of the “á” does correct its self if you select UTF-8 encoding in the browser settings, but that’s just not going to work. If it was up to me we’d be using UTF-8 encoding to begin with, but for reasons outside of TS we can’t. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

-David

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Migrateduser

Is the issue more with the VFE or with the generated file? If VFE, this page is helpful: http://www.ektron.com/developers/ewebeditprokb.cfm?id=1807&fragment=0&SearchType=AND&terms=latin%20characters. Make sure that you're doing the steps suggested. Otherwise, could you use either of the equivalent á or á?

Dave

Current Environment(s):
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(2) TS 6.1 SP1 on W2K3
By the way, I miss Unix terribly.

dchristie

It seems that the issue is with VFE and the WYSIWYG mode. If I were to switch to Code view, add á into the code and then send the file on it would be fine, but if you add á in Code view, then switch back to WYSIWYG mode it takes it upon its self to change you input to the UTF-8 version. The users are not tech saavy enough for this to be done constantly in code view and will be using the WYSIWYG mode. Am I missing something in the config files that pertain to the differnt modes? Should there be a metta tag with the encoding in my DCT as well?

Edited by dchristie on 05/12/05 07:51 AM (server time).

Migrateduser

Check out that link I posted before. You're not the first one to have this problem -- isn't that comforting?

Seriously, Ektron has some helpful information on their site.

Dave

Current Environment(s):
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(2) TS 6.1 SP1 on W2K3
By the way, I miss Unix terribly.