cumulus and utf-8

[dimitris vichos]

i have this page with all statistics of my weather station

http://nea-moudania.snowguide.gr/today.htm

i use the enconding iso-8859-7 . in the cumulus console , in the web sttings ,if i tick the utf-8 enconding, page goes to white.

if in the html use the utf-8 the greek characters appears not good. for these reasons i use the iso-8859-7 enconding.

there are way to use the utf-8 enconding, and the greek characters appears well? this is not important problem just a little issue. cumulus remains the best free weather station software.

the opereting system is windows 7.

[mcrossley]

Are you re-saving the the unprocessed template file as UTF-8 without a BOM when you change the the meta tag to charset=utf-8? Does the unprocessed page display the Greek characters OK?

The big advantage of UTF-8 is that it supports all character sets without having to worry about endianness (and associated BOMs).

[dimitris vichos]

the steps who i following are these:

1.addinh in the html the chartset utf-8
2. save the file as utf-8
3. update the cumulus reload the page and the greek characters appears not good.

[steve]

How are you doing your step 2? Try using notepad++ as follows:

1. Load your iso-8859-7 file into notepad++
2. Select Encoding -> Convert to UTF-8 without BOM
3. Change this line:

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7">

to

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

4. Save the file and get Cumulus to process it with utf-8 enabled.

[dimitris vichos]

its done!!!! thanks steve and mark for your help.