Encoding problem, can you help?
Can some one please help me with this encoding business? I’d like to be able to type out these nice special characters shown on the left (see image) on my blog, but somehow I can’t seem to figure it out.
I have changed the encoding (as blogger suggested) to western mac, western iso, or unicode. As blogger also suggested, I played with the template on blog encoding a bit. Then I typed code of the characters (as listed on the W3C’s website), the 3 digit code that begins with &# and ends with ; but somehow I saw nothing but funny character on my blog after I republished it. Nothing works. It did look ok on the preview or compose. I kept the language on English (US) and I’d like to keep it that way (is this actually the problem?). If you know the solution to my dilemma, please share it with me. I really appreciate it! Thanks in advance.
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I wanted to type some Greek letters on my blog and all I did was copy and paste them from Character Map. It worked fine. I have IE–I don’t know about other operating systems, browsers, etc.
Comment by koukla — October 14, 2005 @ 2:49 am
I tried that too, it didn’t work. But then I am using Mac OS X and Firefox. I may have to just be happy with plain characters in the end …
Comment by Eefje — October 14, 2005 @ 11:16 am
i do it the same way Koukla does, though not with Greek, that’s the only way i get it working… the umlauts and the accents etc..
i’ve made a html file myself on which i drop all the characters i may ever need..
Comment by vfm4 — October 14, 2005 @ 12:29 pm
you get them (at least on my keyboard) this way:
ç = c+alt
ü = u+alt
 = shift + ¨, then A
ô = shift + ¨, then o
î = shift + ¨, then i
ó = o + ´
for ä and ö you have to change the language i think… I hope you’ll amnage to solve the problem!
Nice sketches you have!
Comment by Mevrouw Walvis — October 17, 2005 @ 10:38 am
I’ve memorized any of the alt codes used to type. Never had any problems. You hold down the ALT key and type the number for exmaple ALT-130 = é
You can see the alt codes here:
http://members.aol.com/troochie/alt.html
Comment by Anonymous — October 17, 2005 @ 4:33 pm
On my mac at least, you don’t need to change the language to get to any of these characters in the picture:
ç = option-c
ä = option-u, then a
ñ = option-n, then n
ó = option-e, then o
 = option-i, then A
ü = option-u, then u
ô = option-i, then o
î = option-i, then i
ø = option-o
the pattern being that for the common accent marks, there’s an option combo that sets it up, and then it is applied to the next character. so umlaut is started always with option-u, etc. For the rest of them I just guessed by fiddling around with option combos.
-ben
Comment by ben compton — October 21, 2005 @ 3:34 pm
here’s a wonderful resource for any future inquiries:
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/reference/entity/index.php
i’ve found it very helpful, and it gives you a range of options to get the same result as well.
Comment by seeks — October 29, 2005 @ 4:47 pm