[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Characters misinterpreted by browser

[Andrew J. Korty]

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Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Andrew J. Korty) writes:
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>> When I insert an accented character (say, C-x 8 ' e) into a Wiki
>> file, it looks fine in Emacs. But when published, Firefox displays
>> it as a box containing the letters "F F F D".
>
> The default coding system should already be utf-8. You can check the
> published file with C-u M-x emacs-wiki-visit-published-file .

When I do that, the characters look correct.

> You could try forcing Firefox to use UTF-8 to decode the page. Does
> that work?

Yeah, Firefox is using UTF-8 by default.  I think my Emacs is
producing Latin-1 instead of UTF-8.  How do I switch that?

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Andrew J. Korty, Principal Security Engineer, GCIA, GCFA
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University
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