Comments on: ircount : Repository Record Statistics http://www.nostuff.org/words/2009/ircount-repository-record-statistics/ living up to its name Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:19:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Pattern http://www.nostuff.org/words/2009/ircount-repository-record-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-18026 Dave Pattern Wed, 20 May 2009 20:53:17 +0000 http://www.nostuff.org/words/?p=335#comment-18026 The problem with the Swedish repository looks to be down to the character encoding when the web page is displayed. If you display the Unicode string "Växjö" as bog standard Western ISO-8859-1, you get the garbled version with the paragraph symbol at the end. It looks to be a similar problem with the Russian names -- if you override the web browser's default encoding and change it to UFT-8, the Russian characters display okay. A quick fix might be to add this meta tag in the {head} section of the web page: {meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /} (I wasn't sure if I'd be able to include angle brackets in the comment, so I changed them to curly brackets!) The problem with the Swedish repository looks to be down to the character encoding when the web page is displayed. If you display the Unicode string “Växjö” as bog standard Western ISO-8859-1, you get the garbled version with the paragraph symbol at the end.

It looks to be a similar problem with the Russian names — if you override the web browser’s default encoding and change it to UFT-8, the Russian characters display okay.

A quick fix might be to add this meta tag in the {head} section of the web page:

{meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /}

(I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to include angle brackets in the comment, so I changed them to curly brackets!)

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