UTF-8 Sometimes Breaks IE Rendering

  • sirris

    (@sirris)


    21 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve noticed that when my encoding in WordPress is set to utf-8 IE has a hard time viewing pages. The behavior is quite odd.
    Test Link
    Using IE 6, repeatedly click this link (click it, view the page and click back). You’ll notice that some of the time, you’ll get a blank page while others times you’ll see the content.
    This strange behavior only occurs when the charset=utf-8. When I set it to charset=iso-8859-1, the problem disappears. The strange thing is I believe most if not all my site files are encoded in UTF-8 from DreamWeaver.
    One other thing, the issue disappears if I create a file that doesn’t call any WordPress functions: Test 2 (this link is the source of a WordPress output, no dynamic php occuring).
    Thanks in advance

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  • Thread Starter sirris

    (@sirris)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    I know I could easily run the site in charset=iso-8859-1, however, I think this is a noteworthy bug to report. Does anyone know what might be causing this (besides IE’s inability to do most things correctly)?

    Beel

    (@beel)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    I don’t think it is a bug with WP but perhaps how you have your server set. I set Apache with “AddDefaultCharset UTF-8” and have no problems with IE rendering my page.

    Dirk

    (@dirk)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    I have a related problem:
    I have setup WP with utf-8. If I upload it onto several servers, it displays just fine.
    If I play with WP on my local box (with the same exported DB), all foreign characters are suddenly displayed odd (in fact, they are display directly in UTF without decoding them, so I could run utf8-decode over them and get the real result).
    And yes, I have added utf support in apache:
    AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
    Maybe it’s the apache version?

    Root

    (@root)

    21 years, 11 months ago

    Before we get too far into charsets, can I just add that when it is up and running this might be a very nice looking blog

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