[BUG?] Converts non-standard characters to HTML, but doesn't convert them back

[Oldiesmann]

If I were to try and post non-standard characters on this board, such as Cyrillic or another alphabet, it would convert them to the HTML ASCII codes for those characters, but these would not be converted back, so we would see &#somenumber; instead of the character...

[bostasp]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

This site isn't in Unicode... you could do it on your SMF release by all means....

[Tyris]

uh... speaking of which... I'm getting

Target: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?threadid=2081/1;topicseen
I/O Error: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.

when I click the CSS button... not fully compliant
I think its the << symbol...

[Oldiesmann]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

This site isn't in Unicode... you could do it on your SMF release by all means....

Hmmm... Maybe that's why I get a "4" when I hit ALT+1076 instead of some strange Russian letter...

[[Unknown]]

Tyris,

That's because I fixed content encoding - or at least I think that's the cause.  Before it was not properly compressing the output.

Or I might be wrong...

-[Unknown]

[Tyris]

hmmm... can you explain that in laymens terms....? me no understand ^_^
I ask also coz I made a brief mockup of a potential layout for my SMF forum using snipits of html code from here (namely user info, a post, and the quick links at the top and bottom...)
is it the << and >> icons...?

[[Unknown]]

That's one of the reasons this site is not using UTF-8 - but the erorr is because it's gzipped.  (this is like zipping up the file, so it's not in clear text.  The css validator apparently can't read it.)

-[Unknown]

[Tyris]

hmmm...odd... coz I used some of the source on a test I'm doing for a potential layout.... and I'm getting the same error...
o well... maybe I'll dig thru it and try and figure out what my problem is sometime ^_^