Bug #6622 [Fbk->Opn]: Accent troubles

Edit report at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6622&edit=1 ID: 6622 User updated by: fdelaneau at mac dot com Reported By: fdelaneau at mac dot com -Status: Feedback +Status: Open Id: 6622 Type: Bug Package: Documentation Operating System: Mac OS X PHP Version: 4.3.11 Assigned To: mj New Comment: Even without speaking french you could easily notice the problem: Every accents are replaced by a symbol. In Safari it can't be missed, a black losange with a white questionmark. Firefox is a little more sober and only displays a black questionmark. And no this ISO format doesn't allows the native use of accents, only UTF does, so : é è ç à will be displayed broken unless encoded &eacute; &eagrave; &ccedil; &agrave; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-09-23 05:47:42] mj at php dot net I don't understand that. If you look at the page source of http:/pear.php.net/manual/fr/, you'll see that the encoding is in fact set to ISO-8859-15. The ISO-8859-1* encodings should cover french text pretty well. Also we are not considering to switch to a CSS-based layout any time soon and we are also not intending to switch to strict mode. Are you really sure that setting the xml:lang-attribute helps anything with regard to encoding? Would you mind explaining in more detail what exactly is broken? I don't speak French and thus my browser is not "optimized" for French websites. This makes it a little hard to track down exactly what your problem is. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-01-29 15:35:18] fdelaneau at mac dot com Description: ------------ The French documentation page has a major encoding problem. The original file is encoded in UTF-8 and the page has no correct encoding set. Test script: --------------- You should modify all your pages header like following : Complete the html tag with the xml:lang attribute. Add a meta content-type that describes the used encoding set. In addition in order to getting prepared to a full CSS layout you might also : Suppress the xml declaration that may cause IE to switch to quirksmode. Change the doctype to strict instead of transitional unless you have tags that justify it (also mostly for IE 6). Expected result: ---------------- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Actual result: -------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6622&edit=1