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  1. eme
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    First of all: Thanks for a grat program!

    Yes I think it is a rather big flaw on this otherwise great program. What I did to solve this problem is rather tedious, I simply changed the charset in the headar of ALL the html files.

    from: charset=utf-8

    to: charset=iso-8859-1

    But I'm not sure if it will do the trick for every language.

    ps. When will version 2 be published?
    pps. One wish aswell: I would like be able to put in the colors of the letters, background and so on with hex. (#FF0000) But thats just a minor problem for me!

  2. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 9 years ago

    That change will work for any language that uses the Latin character set. This includes most American and European languages.

    I plan to support every character set for the next version of Web Album Generator, but I can't predict when this will be completed. If you'd like to be notified of its release via email, then you may sign up for the Web Album Generator Announcement List.

  3. eme
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    Hope it will be soon!!

    I'm now a subscriber, thanks!

  4. eme
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    And i forgot... if you wanted to see my album, then it is on:

    http://www.hi.is/~margrin/myndir/index.html

    Pics from Reykjavík and Vestmann-Islands..

  5. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 8 years ago

    Just a note that the latest version of Web Album Generator fixes this issue for all languages based on the latin character sets. The new version can be downloaded from http://www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/download.html

  6. fridjo
    Member
    Posted 8 years ago

    Use universal coding for the extra characters. This works independently of the codepage that is selected in the <HEAD> section and it is the safest way to display non ASCII characters. Here is the example for slovenian characters

    c with caron: &#269;
    C with caron: &#268;
    s with caron: &#353;
    S with caron: &#352;
    z with caron: &#382;
    Z with caron: &#381;

    Just write these codes instead of your characters in the picture names in the WAG album.

    here is the link to my album
    http://botanika.biologija.org/foto/izbor/

  7. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 8 years ago

    Also, I should mention that the next version of Web Album Generator will have full Unicode support. You will be able to type any language (including multiple languages in the same description) and have it display properly. Stay tuned for release information.

  8. Randy
    Member
    Posted 8 years ago

    Also note that it's against W3C specifications to declare the character encoding in <meta> tags...

  9. Michiel
    Member
    Posted 8 years ago

    It is? Then how should I do it? Because the W3C validator doesn't give me any trouble.

  10. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 8 years ago

    Randy Wrote:

    Also note that it's against W3C specifications to declare the character encoding in <meta> tags...


    That's not actually the case. The meta tags act as replacements or supplements in the HTTP header, and you can freely use any meta tags you wish.

    Indeed, the W3C specifies character encoding in the meta tag on their own webpages, and advocates its use in their XHTML document template. (http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html)

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