the windows-1252 character set.

[saintkelley]

I am getting form submissions from my frontpage form that look all gibberish.
At the top of the form is says this:
"The following text uses the windows-1252 character set. Your display is set
for the iso-8859-1 character set, so some characters may not display
properly."

Is this some type of spam or a hacker? My form seems to work fine whenever
I or somebody I know fills it out and hits "submit"

Is there any way to translate it?

Thank you!

 

[Trevor Lawrence]

Web Site http://trevorl.mvps.org

I am getting form submissions from my frontpage form that look all
gibberish.
At the top of the form is says this:
"The following text uses the windows-1252 character set. Your display is
set
for the iso-8859-1 character set, so some characters may not display
properly."

Is this some type of spam or a hacker? My form seems to work fine
whenever
I or somebody I know fills it out and hits "submit"

Is there any way to translate it?

Thank you!

The message appears to be genuine. I have not seen it, but what it says is
reasonable. Somewhere, there is a conflict between the character sets used.

To quote http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752011(VS.85).aspx
Character sets determine how the bytes that represent the text of your HTML
document are translated to readable characters.

In your head section look for this tag
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

The spec after charset can be various, including utf-8 windows-1252 and
iso-8859-1

Other can advise what is best , but I use utf-8

 

[saintkelley]

Thank you for replying. That article is tough to understand, but i am
trying. it was easy to change the site language to utf 8.

Thanks again,
Kelley