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problem with hebrew encoding

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hi,

i have a new Hebrew wordpress site and i have problem with the encoding. the explorer is works just fine, but in Firefox the Hebrew is not looking good. the automatic encoding that Firefox choosing is "Hebrew visual (iso -8859-8) , and the Hebrew is wrong , but when im manually choose the encoding "Hebrew windows (iso-1255)" the Hebrew is looking just fine , but when im browsing the site i need to change the encoding manually every page.

is there a script that can "tell" Firefox to use the good encoding for all of this site? without effecting the explorer.

TNX Matan

hi, i have a new Hebrew wordpress site and i have problem with the encoding. the explorer is works just fine, but in Firefox the Hebrew is not looking good. the automatic encoding that Firefox choosing is "Hebrew visual (iso -8859-8) , and the Hebrew is wrong , but when im manually choose the encoding "Hebrew windows (iso-1255)" the Hebrew is looking just fine , but when im browsing the site i need to change the encoding manually every page. is there a script that can "tell" Firefox to use the good encoding for all of this site? without effecting the explorer. TNX Matan

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Can you post a link?

Which encoding uses the server to send that file? Are you using a meta tag to specify the encoding?

If the server sends an encoding then that encoding will prevail and Firefox will ignore an encoding specified in the page source.


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hi,

http://www.phpbd.com

Which encoding uses the server to send that file? - dont know Are you using a meta tag to specify the encoding? - dont know

TNX

Matan

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The server doesn't send an encoding, so Firefox uses the default as specified in Tools > Options > Content for a start.
I see this in a meta tag: content="text/html; charset=HEBREW" and that is probably what makes Firefox choose the First Hebrew encoding from the list.

You can change that to:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1255" />
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how do i change it?

TNX

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Do you have control over the page source?

You can see the current source in View > Page Source
You will notice this line.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=HEBREW" />

You will have to find a way to change the charset to windows-1255