Bug in Code or on Server? is that possible?

**Al Fresco** · 12-09-2007, 11:08 AM

1) Script Title: Scrollable Content 11

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/scrollc2.htm

3) Describe problem: Four months ago I created a site which uses Scrollable content script II. It worked great until a few weeks ago when it started changing to Japanese. I have no idea why. It works for a couple of days after reposting then changes. Could it be a bug on the server or is it something in the code? Please help.
The page in question is: http://petersearle.com/list.html

**Twey** · 12-09-2007, 02:03 PM

More like Chinese

Anyway, it's probably just the browser's content-type autodetection fouling up on something. Apply a proper content-type with a charset to both pages and all should be OK.

**Al Fresco** · 12-09-2007, 11:47 PM

Hi Twey. Thanks for your help but I'm afraid its still all Greek to me.

I thought it did have a "proper content-type with a charset"? I have noticed some strange text appearing in the copyright notice. Is it possible for added volume on the page to effect it? I will change it again and hope for the best. In the meantime here is the weird text:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>peter searle::archive</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" />

<style type="text/css">
table.one
{
table-layout: fixed;
}

#loadarea {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
#loadarea img {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif;
border:1px solid #999;
background: #fff;
padding:0.2em;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript" src="thumbnailviewer2.js" defer="defer">

/***********************************************
* Image Thumbnail Viewer II script- ?0?10?0?110?0?10?0?148 Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* Visit http://www.dynamicDrive.com for hundreds of DHTML scripts
* This notice must stay intact for legal use
***********************************************/
</script>

<body>
<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="topsection"> <img border="0" src="images/name.gif" alt=""/></div>
<div id="contentwrapper">
<div id="loadarea" style="width: 605px" "height:690px"><img border="0" src="images/alex_connock.jpg" alt=""/>
<div class="innertube"> <b> <em></em></b></div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="leftside">
<script type="text/javascript">

/******************************************
* Scrollable content script II- ?0?10?0?110?0?10?0?148 Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
* This notice must stay intact for use
******************************************/

iens6=document.all||document.getElementById
ns4=document.layers

//specify speed of scroll (greater=faster)
var speed=5

if (iens6){
document.write('<div id="container" style="position:relative;width:385px;height:610px;border:0px solid black;overflow:hidden">')
document.write('<div id="content" style="position:absolute;width:385px;left:0;top:0">')
}
</script>

<ilayer name="nscontainer" width=385 height=460 clip="0,0,175,160">
<layer name="nscontent" width=385 height=460 visibility=hidden>


<table class="one" border="0" width="100%">

<tr>
<td width="40%">Akbal Mohamed Popal</td><td width="60%"> Vice Chancellor of Kabul University</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%">Alan Bradley</td><td width="60%">The Wellcome Trust, The Sangar Centre</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%">Alan Johnson MP</td><td width="60%">The Secretary of State for Health</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%">Albert Roux</td><td width="60%"> Chef, Le Gavroche. </td> </tr>
<tr><td width="40%"></td><td width="60%">Recipient Legion d'honneur</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/alex_connock.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Alex Connock</a></td><td width="60%">Ten Alps (co-founder with Sir Bob Geldof)</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/andrea_bocelli1.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Andrea Bocelli</a></td><td width="60%">Tenor</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"> Andrew Dilnot CBE</td><td width="60%">Principal, St Hughes Coll., Oxford / </td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"></td><td width="60%">documentary presenter</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"> Andrew Winter</td><td width="60%">TV presenter, Selling Houses etc.</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/andy_burnham.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Andy Burnham MP</a></td><td width="60%">Chief Secretary to the Treasury</td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/andy_harrison.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Andy Harrison</a></td><td width="60%">CEO of Easyjet</td> </tr>

<li<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/andy_sanders.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Andy Sanders</td><td width="60%">Co-Founder of the Puccino's franchise</a></td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"> Angela Huth</td><td width="60%"> Novelist </td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/anita_rodick.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Anita Rodick (1942-2007)</td><td width="60%">Founder of The Body Shop</a></td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/anne-marie_duff.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Anne-Marie Duff</td><td width="60%">Actress</a></td> </tr>

<tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/anthony_horowitz.jpg" onclick="return false;" style="loadarea img" rel="enlargeimage::click" rev="loadarea" class="noborder"/>Anthony Horowitz</td><td width="60%">Childrens author</a></td> </tr>
?tr><td width="40%"><a href="images/anthony_k???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</td><td width="60%">P??????????????????????????? ??????????????????

And so on..........

Many Thanks.

**jscheuer1** · 12-10-2007, 02:59 AM

You have:

Code:

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

on the page, but the server is serving it using UTF-16. Twey would know more about why that's messing things up and how to change it than I do though.

**Al Fresco** · 12-10-2007, 08:15 AM

Hmm. You have me really confused now John. Should I be using a different "Content-Type" or charset? And should I be saving my codes in UTF-16, UTF-8, or western (mac OS roman)? I have never considered this bit before.

**jscheuer1** · 12-10-2007, 08:30 AM

I had hoped Twey would have come back to this thread, but so far he hasn't. As I said, he would know more about it. I usually stick to the client side.

However, I can say that your meta http-equiv="Content-Type" tag is being overridden by the server as UTF 16. That much is clear. Now, from what I can tell from Googling UTF 16, it will cause some characters to be served with some of their bits removed.

Here's where I get a little sketchy, I'm not sure if even charset=iso-8859-1 is what you want, but I know it should be better than UTF 16 for your content. There might be a better one though. So, that needs to be determined, and then, whatever charset is optimal needs to be configured on the server side, or, at the very least, the server needs to be configured to allow your meta http-equiv="Content-Type" tag to set the content type and that should then be set to the optimal charset.

How this (configuring the server) is done is just a bit beyond me though. There are several methods, hopefully you are familiar with one of them. If not, you can ask your host, or if you are hosting your own site, read up on the server software you are using's configuration.

**Twey** · 12-10-2007, 10:18 AM

Hmm. I'm a little unsure of what to do here (or indeed what's happened to result in this situation) since it appears that all the rest of the file is valid UTF-16 except for that bit at the bottom (and bits of the DD copyright notices). How did you create this file?

Converting the whole thing to UTF-8 would probably better since your text is mostly Western -- UTF-16 requires two bytes for everything, but UTF-8 requires only one byte for ASCII-compatible text (at the expense of an extra byte per CJK character).

**jscheuer1** · 12-10-2007, 10:39 AM

Another possibility is that the file itself is corrupt. Was it your intention to include all of those Asian characters?

**djr33** · 12-10-2007, 11:02 AM

I'd suggest making a new file, and cutting/pasting any GOOD chunks and leaving any corrupt bits in first file, rewriting them.

**Al Fresco** · 12-10-2007, 11:11 AM

OK you guys have really blinded me with science now. I'm a little out of my depth but I think we are making progress. I can safely say that there is not meant to be any Chinese.
The original file was created by me using text edit on a mac. Im not sure if I saved as western mac roman, utf-16 or utf-8

. I now know that the owner of the site has recently added images/lines to it himself on a mac and i suspect saved it using utf-16. I guess this explains the reason that some of it still works and some doesn't.
1.What should it be written and saved in (western mac roman, utf-16 or utf-8)?
2.And also should it be rich or plain text? I think the problem may be simply that I dont understand these options.

Thanks Heaps Guys.

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