From: comopasta Gr <granadojose@...>
Date: 2011-05-05T19:35:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding nightmare

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote in post #996590:
> On Wed, 04 May 2011 13:05:26 +0200, comopasta Gr <granadojose@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> onclick="remove('Tom%27s+card')"
>> onclick="remove('Validaci%C3%B3n')"
> :
>> BUT now the other one is converted to Validación
>> Note the ó
>
> There is two parts to this. Firstly you are using Percent-encoding (aka
> URL encoding) which maps spaces to plus signs and characters to %XY
> tokens
> wiht X and Y being a hexadecimal digit. This works as intended. Secondly
> you are encoding the characters according to utf-8 which maps "'" to %27
> and "ó" to %C3%B3. However, for displaying ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252
> (aka
> CP 1252) is used which interprets %C3 as  and %B3 as ³.
>
> Try either switching to utf-8 or - if this is not possible - using %F3
> as
> the proper encoding of "ó" for the given character set.
>
> Jupp

Hi, thanks for the tip. As replied earlier I managed to solve the issue 
with gsub. I just wanted to comment that utf-8 should be in use already. 
At least based on the meta info generated:

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

Thanks again.

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