DenisNewhaven
asked on
What is the easiest way to ensure correct display of foreign characters in an English language html environment?
I have an Access database which includes a Serbo-Croat vocabulary used to translate phrases so as to present documents in either English or Serbo-Croat.
In the Access database the Serbo-Croat characters are stored and displayed correctly.
I'm in the process of putting the database online, keeping the same .accdb back end, with the front end html, javascript, jquery etc and .asp where needed to access the database.
Everything works - except that the special characters display as nearest Latin alpahabet equivalents.
What is the easiest way to obtain correct display of the special characters on the html pages?
In the Access database the Serbo-Croat characters are stored and displayed correctly.
I'm in the process of putting the database online, keeping the same .accdb back end, with the front end html, javascript, jquery etc and .asp where needed to access the database.
Everything works - except that the special characters display as nearest Latin alpahabet equivalents.
What is the easiest way to obtain correct display of the special characters on the html pages?
SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
If everything is being rendered as UTF-8 character set then the browser should be able to recognize everything.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ASKER
Its a reference to a website with a complete solution.
ASKER
But it seems a heavyhandedapproach. Is there no way of persuading browsers to temporarily recognise different alphabets without actually converting strings?