Please see: Understanding Encoding as the info below is quite old.
Character Encoding settings allow various language character sets to be displayed properly in a browser. For more on internationalization see: i18n All the data in Tiki are supposed encoding with UTF-8 which can handle all characters defined by the Unicode standard while still being relatively compact. Problems can arise if you are looking at this site and you see some strange character when you choose a non english language. One concern is that your browser has to support UTF-8 and further more figure out that the Tikiwiki pages are encoded in this encoding. If your browser interprets the UTF-8 encoded output as something else, for example Latin-1 which is the default in Western Europe, then the characters 'æ', 'ø', and 'å' in the Danish locale looks like 'à¦', 'à¸', and 'à¥'. Redflo solved this in August 2004.
Background
The UCS defines many more characters, so 1 byte per character is not enough. Unicode uses 31 bit, so the logical size of each character would be 4 bytes (32 bit). The problem with those wide characters is that they're only needed if your use of the ~2 billion characters are evenly distributed --- most people use no more than 256 of those characters in their documents, so there's a lot wasted space. The UTF-8 encoding is a way of transforming 4 byte wide characters into 1-6 byte wide characters. It's backwards compatible with ASCII meaning that texts encoded in ASCII automatically is in UTF-8 as well. Other encodings (including Latin-1) use two or more bytes to represent each character. That's why 'æ', 'ø', and 'å' turns into two-letter combinations when an UTF-8 encoded text is viewed as Latin-1. All the above is dealt with in much more detail in the UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux which is usefull for a lot more than just Unix/Linux. If Tiki on your server doesn't look fine:
Some servers (like Apache with the default Debian config) adds a To solve this with Apache then either check that there is no option An other solution is to move the Test on this page itself(pl) Czy polski ogónki funkcjonujÄ… tutaj, pisany przez mozilli? Np, tu trochÄ™ treść. (ja) 日本èªÅ¾. (en) Good, this looks OK ð. Editing the translations
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