www.aadmm.org, my personal notes about UTF-8

UTF-8 enconding

My first pages work with the iso-8859-1 character encoding. All of my german pages use entities for some special characters. After check the schema of my pages, many rework must made. So I changed this site first to UTF-8.

UTF-8 Howto

How can I use UTF-8 encoding documents? Here the changes I have done on this site.

UTF-8 coding

I'm working with a be capable of doing UTF-8 coding editor and save my documents as UTF-8. But act with caution, I must use for some text some entities like & < > ".

Now I change following line in the (X)HTML UTF-8 document:

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

Changes in the .htaccess file

On my web server I must do following, that the browser HTTP Request and the server Response Header can identify my documents as UTF-8 documents.

  AddDefaultCharSet utf-8
  AddCharSet utf-8 .shtml .xhtml .htm .html
  

After that I can check the UTF-8 encoding with following tools: