What is it with the Euro symbol?

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:34 pm

I'm transforming some xsl/xml into HTML using PureBasic and just can't seem to get the encoding right in the HTML document.

This is what I'm using :

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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Which works for some stuff, but for the euro symbol and more it just shows a question mark - even on European computers.

I'm at a loss.. What can be done?

freedimension · Post by **freedimension** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:05 pm

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/euro.html

Seldon · Post by **Seldon** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:12 am

The EURO symbol comes with Latin-9 charset, known as ISO-8859-*15* . So try this:

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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15">

Microsoft Windows charset slightly differs from ISO and the EURO sign is mapped in a different location, but adding such META definition, it should work.

Let me know.