[pmwiki-users] Greek Utf-8

Tue Feb 13 10:27:21 CST 2007

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:08:09AM -0800, Seth Cherney wrote:
> It just does not work.
> 
> The page, even if declared, is still *not truly* encoded in utf-8.  
> saxon will still have an error (browsers could care less, they 
> dont work on the same low level processing as far as I can tell).
> 
> Unless I have a header such as:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html 
>     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
>     "xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  
> ...
> 
> It is full of byte errors. (ie the server is outputing iso bytes, not utf-8).

Note that neither the webserver nor PmWiki do any form of
automatic character encoding conversions.  So, if the text was
originally entered and encoded as iso-8859-1, then that's
what PmWiki will output, even if the header says otherwise.

> PS:  any tips on converting between true utf-8 and the #nnn; 
> sequence in ROSpatterns and/or in markups?  I will write a 
> verbose if necessary, unless someone knows any type of command/shorthand.

I'm not certain which way you're wanting the translation to
go.  When saving a page, do you want utf-8 characters to be
converted into the &#nnn; counterparts, or vice-versa?

Pm