Having issues with setting the charset of webpages. Currently at 9.0.1FP6, but this really hasn’t changed since 8.5.x…
Current settings are: Internet Sites document → Domino Web Engine → Character Set → ‘Use UTF-8 for output:’ “YES” - but many pages are rendered using US-ASCII. Character set is set as ‘Default’ on the forms (in Designer).
It appears that forms that are opened with ‘OpenForm’ generally specify ‘UTF-8’, while forms being opened via ‘ReadForm’ as well as $$ViewTemplates specify ‘US-ASCII’.
Additionally, took me a while to find it, but in order to have the Content Type shown automatically on a webpage, one must set ‘Meta content type’ to ‘Enabled’ - but found that this option is hidden when ‘Use UTF-8 for output:’ is set to “YES”. Setting the option to ‘No’ allows the ‘Meta content type’ to be changed, then setting UTF-8 Output back to ‘Yes’. Don’t know if this is an accident or by design, also not sure if this works through a server restart yet.
So, a couple questions - First of all, does anyone know why UTF-8 isn’t being used - as the implication is that it should be…
Second - would it be recommended to set ‘Use UTF-8 for Output’ to ‘No’, then set the character sets individually?
Third - it appears that I can override what is being displayed via a setting on each Form in Designer, I just didn’t want to have to do that thinking that the default should be… UTF-8!
Thanks!