Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer's Reference Guide

Tips
Setting the charset Parameter
Browser Support for UTF-8
Implementing a Web Site that Uses UTF-8 Encoding
the value of the hidden field, the browser converts the UTF-8 byte stream to a
Unicode string for JavaScript. Similarly, when a form is posted to the server, the
browser converts content stored in the hidden field to UTF-8.
• If the UTF-8 byte stream is treated as a Unicode string, the special
characters are corrupted and appear as two or three characters.
• If a Unicode string is interpreted as UTF-8, special characters are corrupted,
and the number of characters is reduced, thereby eliminating some
characters whether or not they are special.
• ASCII characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, etc.) always appear correctly because they
have the same value in Unicode and UTF-8.
If you are retrieving the entire document from the editor, set the charset parameter
to utf-8. If you are retrieving only the body contents, you may still set the charset
parameter.
To set the charset parameter to utf-8, update the ewebeditprodefaults.js file so
that charset is set to utf-8. Or, you can use JavaScript to modify
eWebEditPro.parameters on the page using this code.
eWebEditPro.parameters.editor.charset = "utf-8";
In order for the browser to support UTF-8, the following conditions must exist.
• The browser displaying the editor must support UTF-8.
- Microsoft provides language add-ons for Internet Explorer.
- Because Netscape 4.7x may not display Asian characters on English
Windows (they may appear as question marks '?'), you need a
language-specific version of the operating system and/or browser.
- Netscape 6 supports multiple languages.
• Ensure that the browser encoding uses UTF-8. Set the browser to unicode
using the sequence of menu options indicated below.
- Internet Explorer: View > Encoding > Auto-Select or Unicode (UTF-8)
For More Information about UTF-8
- Netscape 4.7: View > Character Set > Unicode (UTF-8)
- Netscape 6: View > Character Coding > Auto-Detect > Auto-Detect
(All) or Unicode (UTF-8)
• UTF-8 (technical specification) - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt
• The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer’s Reference Guide, Release 5.1, Revision 1 365