Encoding Woes…
Jan 27th, 2008 by Jim Parshall
Ok, seriously, STOP using Windows-1252 for the default encoding for web pages. At this late a date, one should be using Unicode and the encoding format UTF8. Word likes this mutant strain of the ISO-8869-1 standard and many other Microsoft utilities do as well. Argh! Stop it!
I just spent the better part of three hours fighting with some issues I would not wish upon my worst enemy–all thanks to Windows-1252.
One more time in case y’all missed it. Use Unicode for your text. Save the file and mark the text as UTF8 encoded. Use Unicode data types in SQL databases and the nchar, nvarchar and ntext types in SQL Server. Please. I beg you.