Set utf-8 globally?

[sjordi]

Actually partially did it...
my forms are now wrong, only the title is correct.
Oh well, I'll remove the accent on the <title>

[bjornkn]

What was it that "did it" then?

[sjordi]

When in ISO-8859-1, the accented character in the <title> tab was correct.
Then all the rest, the page contents were wrong... é became garbage.
I've set back everything to UTF-8 and removed the accent from the <title> until it's possible
to specify each page character set

[bjornkn]

It is amazing that in all these years they have not been able to handle non-US characters and accents correctly. Every single day I see similar errors.
A workaround could be to edit the title manually afterwards to &**; style?
That seems to still work everywhere?

[sjordi]

Yes but each time you re-publish your pages, it will be overriden.

[bjornkn]

True - it's not an ideal solution, but if you just need to have the accent/character there it may be worth it?

[covoxer]

not been able to handle non-US characters

How is that? The website is exported with user's OS codepage. So it supports whatever characters are available in this codepage. Works well with Cyrillic, Greek, and, of course, all sorts Latin based languages.

[bjornkn]

Maybe I wasn't clear about this - I did not blame Xara for not handling this.
The problem is that the computer world has not been able to handle this correctly everywhere, ever since the ASCII 7-bit standard.

This is just a quick example I found by looking at the source for a current page:
<!--Innholdet pΠdisse
Which should have read:
<!--Innholdet på disse
In the page itself they use &aring; instead, which works as usual. And they use &oslash; in the <title> BTW, which is why I looked at the source.
That Œ is a ligature of o and e (French grapheme), which would translate to Øø in my language, and not Ææ, which is a ligature of a and e.

[covoxer]

I see. Well, that's why they have invented Unicode.

[bjornkn]

That's what I thought too. But why doesn't it work as expected after 20 years (or more?)?
AFAIK Unicode defines more than 100,000 characters, which should cover the most common accents etc