Hi,
May be it's a know issue but my search brought nothing...
We have static HTML files with Japanese text in UTF-8 encoding - it's
on-line Help for our application, so there are no Web servers involved,
just .html and .js on a hard drive.
..
Help topics are shown in a frameset (I know, I know, I personally had
no idea :)) like this (I made an example): http://RusWin.net/jindex.htm
Looks Ok in this example, each file involved has
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
But in this example the filese used in frames are hard-coded in
jindex.htm:
<FRAMESET ROWS="14%,76%,*">
<FRAME SRC="jheader.htm">
<FRAMESET COLS="29%,71%">
<FRAME SRC="jleft.htm">
<FRAME SRC="jmain.htm" NAME="page">
</FRAMESET>
<FRAME SRC="jfoot.htm">
</FRAMESET>
In a real system main frame shows gibberish instead of Japanese -
eventhough all browsers show (if I place cursor to the main frame and
use right mouse button to see current encoding) that currently selected
encoding for that piece _is_ UTF-8, the text is shown using "Western"
encoding :(
You can see that bad effect simulated if you go to
http://RusWin.net/jindex.htm, place cursor to the main frame and using
right mouse click choose "Western(Windows)" encoding - it's what we see
in real production system!
What is the difference with my example and the real system?
In real system HTML file with FRAMESET tag has _placeholders_
(blank.htm) afrer SRC= like this:
<frame name="" src="pagenav.htm" scrolling="no">
<frame name="" src="blank.htm" scrolling="no">
<frame name="" src="blank.htm" scrolling="auto">
and real file names are dynamically prepared using JavaScript
(re-direct happens):
WWHGetWWHFrame(ParamToBookDir)
........
location.replace(ParamToBookDir +
"wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=" +
WWHBookData_Context() + "&file=" + BaseFilename);
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So does anyone know why re-direct (location.replace) can cause such
strange effect of a wrong encoding used?
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We tried to avoid replacing whic removes file from frame first and
tried instead to use location to directly assign a file to the frame,
but it did not help:
newUrl = ParamToBookDir +
"wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=" +
WWHBookData_Context() + "&file=" + BaseFilename;
location = newUrl;
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Thanks,
Paul
