Character Encoding

[Biju Warrier]

Kindly have a look at the below content and get back to me if u know the solution for this problem.
Character Encoding Set. The default character encoding set of Windows
> Box is windows-1252 and the default character encoding set of Solaris is
> iso-8859-1. Currently what is happening is, we are getting some junk characters
> in the letter content of Preview Letter screen / Edit screen, which we believe
> is because of the character settings, as the data gets moved from Windows to
> Solaris Box. We are not getting / seeing any special characters, when we open
> the same html content in Windows Box, where DLSCOM resides. But, if we pull out
> the same HTML in Solaris, we are getting these special characters. Though the
> html generated in Windows Box, has the tag
>
> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> I really don't know the character set it has, as part of its letter content is iso-8859-1 compliant. I believe it takes the system default
> character encoding set, which is windows-1252.
>
> For ex:- '?/span>' which appears in the letter is because of one of these special character, why '?' is appearing and because of that
> the SPAN tags is getting affected.

[Chris Baron]

Hi Biju,
you have to transform windows western european
to iso-8859-1 to display special characters in the browser correctly.
If you use JSP or Servlets this example should help:
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.nio.charset/ConvertChar.html
I believe to remember that the < is also a simple Quotation-Mark somewhere( ...was it France ?.. )....
....i had a look here:
http://selfhtml.teamone.de/html/referenz/zeichen.htm
if you speak french:
http://selfhtml.selfhtml.com.fr/html/reference/signes.htm
....Aaaand yes < ( Unicode 60 ) is something different than ‹ ( Unicode 8250 )
maybe this causes the ?-Prob. Then you have to change all Chars 8250 to 60 ... ähm somehow
hth
cb
[ May 06, 2003: Message edited by: Christian Baron ]