Comments on: Why is it so difficult to stick to iso-8859-1? http://therning.org/magnus/archives/201 Incoherent mumblings Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick H http://therning.org/magnus/archives/201/comment-page-1#comment-87617 Nick H Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:05:31 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/archives/201#comment-87617 <p>Old post I know, but I've just come across this problem today! It seems that even submitting content with a certain curly apostrophe in an ISO-8859-1 page will cause Firefox and IE to send it as 0x92, the Windows-1251 character. This is even though I'm on Ubuntu, not Windows! It's a compatibility "feature" in these browsers, which makes it hard to work with ISO-8859-1 even if you're doing everything according to the rules!</p> <p>Just one more reason to move to UTF-8 :)</p> <p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#The_ISO-8859-1.2FWindows-1252_mixup</p> Old post I know, but I’ve just come across this problem today! It seems that even submitting content with a certain curly apostrophe in an ISO-8859-1 page will cause Firefox and IE to send it as 0×92, the Windows-1251 character. This is even though I’m on Ubuntu, not Windows! It’s a compatibility “feature” in these browsers, which makes it hard to work with ISO-8859-1 even if you’re doing everything according to the rules!

Just one more reason to move to UTF-8 :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1#The_ISO-8859-1.2FWindows-1252_mixup

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