Håkan Lindqvist wrote:
On tis, 2006-03-14 at 16:35 +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
I guess they aren't. An entity like ü represents a single byte char (ASCII 252; "ü" in ISO-8859-1). As far as I know the browser will not display this entity correctly because it expects double-byte characters.
Oh! You're probably right about that, I didn't even think about that nasty variant of html entities.
The "correct" way of encoding ü would obviously be ü, which is what I was thinking of.
/Håkan
After a short test, I have to correct myself: FF and IE display all html entities correctly (even the single-byte chars). In that case it's not necessary to write a function that will convert those.
But I have no idea why the characters in Martin's mails are not displayed correctly. The only reason I can imagine is that there's no charset specified in the mail/part headers. Could you check that Martin?
Regards, Thomas