Re: Displaying non-ascii characters

On Nov 11, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Yar Hwee Boon wrote:

> I'm trying to display non-ascii multi-byte characters and as a start, 
> I implement #renderContentOn: as
>
>     renderContentOn: html
>         | f s |
>         f := FileStream fileNamed: 'path-to-some-file'.
>         [s := f contents]
>         ensure: [f close].
>         html text: s
>
> I'm running windows and opening the file in notepad shows the text 
> correctly. But garbage is shown  on the HTML page. Can anyone help? 
> Thanks

Seaside declares an encoding of UTF-8 (see WAResponse>>initialize).  So 
if you have text in another encoding, you either need to convert it to 
UTF-8, or change the content-type header.

Avi