Re: German characters not correct in output webform

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German characters not correct in output webformBert Kemner wrote:

> I've a problem with a Javascript form on a german website.
> (http://informationservices.swets.de/web/show/id=47553)
> The input of the form contains german characters.
> But the output (which is generated by submitting the form) does not
> display those characters (see example beneath). My first reaction to
> this problem is that Unicode somehow does not translate these german
> characters to Windows (Outlook).
>
> Vor- und Zuname:: Birgitta Mühe
> Firma / Institution:: �ffentliche Bücherei Mainz

It's Outlook (or some other process upstream) that's not converting the
characters correctly from UTF-8 to Windows CP1252. "Unicode" doesn't
perform the translation; it;s just a character encoding standard.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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