Text Encoding Problem

**kutay** · 27 December 2009, 08:52 AM

Hello,
When I design my web page with the Web Designer, Turkish letter characters, such as ş, ğ, ç, ö, ü etc. can not be encoded properly in the HTML codes.
Is there any way in the Web Designer program to make these characters be seen in the HTML codes? Otherwise, the keywords will not be recognized by the Google indexing robots, I quess.

Thanks.

**covoxer** · 27 December 2009, 10:30 AM

Hello,
they should work well. Can you provide the example file that doesn't export correctly so that I could look what's wrong with it?
Thank you.

**kutay** · 27 December 2009, 07:14 PM

You can visit and check the page source code of the web site by using your web browser: www.sihirlidegnek.com.
You should scroll down the page to see the HTML source codes.
Thanks.

**covoxer** · 27 December 2009, 07:22 PM

Ok. I see a lot of Turkish letters on this page and they seems to look correctly. So where is the problem?

**Sebastian** · 27 December 2009, 07:28 PM

Hi,

i see also turkish letters:

Sihirli Değnek’in sihirli dünyasına hoşgeldiniz...

...
Kişilik gelişimimiz,
hayatımız boyunca
edineceğimiz roller
aslında çocukluk
...

Sebastian

**kutay** · 28 December 2009, 06:38 AM

That is very weird. When I have attempted to insert the turkish texts here they seemed correctly. However if I look at the texts by using 'show the page source' on the Firefox Mozilla, they do not seem OK. So, HTML codes on my computer are not WYGWYS, as is Xara !

Anyways, thanks for kind helps.

**covoxer** · 28 December 2009, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by kutay

However if I look at the texts by using 'show the page source' on the Firefox Mozilla, they do not seem OK.

Ah you mean html code.

So that you see:

Code:

Sihirli De& #287;nek Kost& #252;m Tasar& #305;m Evi, faaliyet alan& #305; kiralık ve sat& #305;l& #305;k & #231;ocuk ve bebek kost& #252;mleri olan bir kost& #252;m kiralama / kost& #252;m sat& #305;& #351; firmas& #305;d& #305;r.

In place of the following string:
Sihirli Değnek Kostüm Tasarım Evi, faaliyet alanı kiralık ve satılık çocuk ve bebek kostümleri olan bir kostüm kiralama / kostüm satış firmasıdır.

This is correct. All non KOI-7 characters are encoded in UNICODE to get the maximum compatibility. In this case, for example, & #287; is a UNICODE representation of the ğ letter. And so on.
Using UNICODE for national characters is much better for browser and search engine compatibility than any particular 8 bit code pages.

So back to your original questions:

When I design my web page with the Web Designer, Turkish letter characters, such as ş, ğ, ç, ö, ü etc. can not be encoded properly in the HTML codes.

They are encoded very properly. More properly than you have used to see.

Otherwise, the keywords will not be recognized by the Google indexing robots, I quess.

You are absolutely wrong. For example, your page is already indexed by Google using these characters. Do a search for the "Sihirli Değnek Kostüm Tasarım Evi" in Google and you'll see your page on the first place.

**kutay** · 28 December 2009, 10:41 AM

Covoxer,
Your answer is pretty much appreciated. So, there is no need to be worried about the indexing matter. I have had some doubt so far that my keywords of, say palyaço, satılık etc., could not be taken into account by Google, which I now know is not correct.
Thanks again...