Character Encoding for simple HTML entity

chakfong

Hi,
We are creating jsp page using tpl and each page contains <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> to support different encoding

When a special character is entered to the textarea of DCR e..g ©, the output page display correctly using IE western europe ISO encoding.
However, it display ? character when using other encodings in IE.

Someone suggests putting a subrountine (filter) to search for all special characters to translate the textarea to HTML Character Encoding Entities. © -> &copy; etc . We have lots of TPL and there are tons of special characters. The proposed solution will make unnecessary load if the textarea dose not have special characters.

Please help! thanks
Ken