Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer's Reference Guide

Implementing a Web Site that Uses
UTF-8 Encoding
Implementing UTF-8
UTF-8 is a byte stream encoding scheme that converts each double-byte
Unicode character to one, two or three bytes.
For example, the letter a has an ASCII value of 97 (61 hex). It maps
unchanged in UTF-8 to a single byte with a value of 97.
The single quote character (“) has an ASCII value of 231 (E7 hex). It converts
to two UTF-8 bytes: 195 167 (C3 A7 hex).
The Japanese single quote character (“) has a Unicode value of 27231 (6A5F
hex). It converts to three UTF-8 bytes: 230 169 159 (E6 A9 9F hex).
See Also:
• ”Encoding Special Characters” on page 354
• ”Implementing UTF-8” on page 364
To implement UTF-8, follow these points.
• All Web pages that include the editor or that display the content must set
the charset to UTF-8.
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
...
• If you are using a database, ensure that it can accept UTF-8 or Unicode
characters.
• Set the configuration data to produce characters for UTF-8.
(For more information, see ”charencode Attribute” on page 356.)
• Load UTF-8 encoded content into the hidden field for the editor. How you
load this content varies according to your server platform and
environment.
NOTE You may not be able to use standard HTML encoding functions, such as
HTMLEncode() in ASP.
WARNING! Content stored in JavaScript string variables and in the eWebEditPro ActiveX
control is stored as Unicode (double-byte) characters. When a browser reads
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