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dabbler
09-11-2002, 07:07 AM
Hi,
As my name suggests I am "dabbling" with web design.
My problem is that I use foreign letters, and with notepad I have to use encoding that then doesn't validate with w3.org for correct XHTML.
I really like FP and have used it quite a lot, but cannot get foreign letters to appear correctly.
I use Czech letters which are in windows-1250 char-set so I set page encoding for that, but how do I enter them in the editor correctly?
Hope someone has a solution.
(BTW I do really want to write good code in XHTML and I use CSS - web design is a hobby for me and I want to do it well.)
(Isn't this a fun forum??)
Dynasty
09-11-2002, 07:11 AM
Maybe I didn't quite understand properly, but I'm not sure how changing the editor you use, will have an effect on the validation of the xhtml file.
However try putting this in the <head> section of the file and see if it helps any with the validator.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
dabbler
09-11-2002, 07:22 AM
Sorry, perhaps I didn't explain clearly.
In notepad, I cannot save the file as asci, I have encode it differently, and then I have an extra symbol at the beginning of the file. Not a problem because it can be removed. (I have to save as Unicode - and it took me months to get my characters to appear correctly on the web!)
But I really want to use FP because I find it so good. There I cannot even get the foreign letters to appear at all! I have Czech and Slovak and German installed on the PC, but not all their characters are in the "Special Character Symbols" particularly øØ and èÈ.
Is this any clearer? (Please excuse the grey hair!)
dabbler
09-14-2002, 08:00 AM
Does this mean that no-one knows the answer?
BoR|S
09-14-2002, 08:42 AM
I guess that it because of the font that is used to display the source in FP... if there is a way to change it, change it to a font that has your native language support...
(In extended ASCII code)
BTW, when I paste or write in Hebrew or in Russian in FP, I see jiberish, but when I save it a veiw it, I see it in the language I wrote it in... (and I save in palin text and not in unicode)
dabbler
09-14-2002, 11:12 AM
I've tried changing the font in the preferences, but even though the correct letters show up in the editing window, they do not in the preview window, nor in the html file when viewed in a browser.
But thanks for the suggestion, Boris.
Anybody else any ideas?
Waves
09-19-2002, 08:29 PM
I don't know the answer.
dabbler
09-20-2002, 02:43 AM
Ah!
Setting the Options - Editing Preferences to East European character set, and using foreign keyboard installed on Windows works (for Czech at least!)
Now it displays correctly in the editing window and in the preview and in the website (Using charset=windows-1250 and specifying windows-1250 in the XHTML declaration)
Great stuff!
BoR|S
09-20-2002, 04:22 AM
2Waves: If you don't know the answer, don't write it...
2dabbler: Hmm, doesn't work for Hebrew thought... :(
dabbler
09-20-2002, 05:02 AM
With Hebrew installed from my windows control panel, I get Hebrew in the editing window by changing charset in Editing Preferences to Hebrew. (I have a Hebrew font installed already)
I imagine that setting the XML version encoding to the correct charset should produce the desired effect in the browser??
Does windows-1255 work? or another ISO code?
BoR|S
09-20-2002, 05:12 AM
Ah oops, now it works, I just pressed the 'cancel' button by mistake :rolleyes:
cbkihong
09-28-2002, 06:44 AM
I also had problems with showing Chinese characters in the editor window too. The character set setting didn't seem to work in my case and eventually I got it "fixed" by disabling the syntax highlighting, which wasn't really desirable I think.
Hope this would be fixed in the coming version.
wow!The first chinese I met here.
I'm from Taiwan.:p
gloria22
09-28-2002, 04:18 PM
Originally posted by Josh
wow!The first chinese I met here.
I'm from Taiwan.:p
DCElliott
04-25-2003, 04:35 AM
1st Page supports installable foreign (what's foreign depends on your point of view, doesn't it? :p) dictionaries. A number of free dictionaries are available here (http://www.addictive-software.com/dicts.htm)
1. Just extract the download to the 1st Page directory and
2. Open 1st page and in an untitled page in the edit mode write in any word you know is wrong.
3. Use the Check Spelling... sub menu from the tools menu
4. With the of check spelling window open, choose the option button.
5. Choose Add from the Main Dictionaries window
6. Browse your hard drive to the 1st Page folder where the new dictionary was unzipped and add it.
DE
Chandy
04-29-2003, 04:14 AM
Thanks for the info but I had some problems.
When trying to select a dictionary to import, there is no indication of the required file extension that the Import window looks for. This make it very annoying to try and select the dictionary file.
I am looking for a British English dictionary. When I finally got 1st Page to see the file I downloaded from the suggested page it broke my installation and I had to hand-edit the preferences.ini file to remove it again before 1st Page would start.
Chandy
Lichen
09-20-2005, 03:22 AM
In case anyone is still looking for dictionaries, they can now be found at
http://www.addictivesoftware.com/addict2/dicts.html
as the latest dictionaries are not compatible with the spell checker in 1stPage2000
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