Charsets (Again!)

[daddyalfie]

Thanks to LSW for his recent reply to a similar question from me.

 

Here's a new wrinkle!

 

I made a post - sort of a blog - of pictures and comments regarding a Swedish St. Lucia party we recently hosted. In it I needed to use some special Swedish vowels (With "umlauts")

 

Using utf-8 did not work at all, so after some research on the net I tried using utf-16 instead. Worked wonderfully in FireFox, but (SURPRISE SURPRISE!) not in IE-8.

 

Any special charsets for foreign characters that IE will understand?

 

Thanks! Alfie

[virtual]

Ah now I understand the Viking helmet avatar...Have you tried ISO-8859-1, most European sites use it.

Edited December 16, 2009 by virtual

[daddyalfie]

Thanks Virtual! I shall try that and I shall probably note any result here as it would seem to be pertinent to some users herein.

 

Alfred (The Great!)

[daddyalfie]

Yup! Works like a charm! Guess us Scandihoovians need to use that charset!

 

Many thanks!

 

Alfie

[Wickham]

As a matter of interest, are "umlauts" shown here:-

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/HTMLchrc.html

 

If they are, then you could use utf-8 with the HTML code equivalents of them, as we do with ? sterling.

 

Edit: they are shown, like ? ë ë small e, umlaut/dieresis mark

Edited December 16, 2009 by Wickham

[virtual]

But depending of course on your target audience, it's a lot easier to just choose the ISO-8859-1 charset, than use UTF-8 and then add special character codes in the html to display each special character.

 

P.S. The umlauts are there, but look at the size of that list that you have to learn....

Edited December 16, 2009 by virtual