Send page by email, charset error

Question

I'm having a slight painful error, currently I am creating a page in a new window using window.open().

var myWindow = window.open ('','','scrollbars=1, menubar=1, toolbar=1, titlebar=1, status=1,     resizable=1, width=800, height=600');

I then proceed to write out the HTML to the document.

I need to allow the user in IE9 to send the page I create using File->Send->Page by email. However when trying this the email is outputted using a weird charset.

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I have racked my brains and searched and searched on-line, I will appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Thanks Gary

UPDATE:

Just a quick update I am already setting the meta data for the page as the following.

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

Answer 1

I'm having the exact same issue and I was able to partially solve it by explicitly setting the character set of the document. Here's my test page:

<HTML>
        <HEAD>
            <SCRIPT>
                var w = window.open();

                w.document.open();
                w.document.charset = 'utf-8';
                w.document.write('<html><head></head><body>Page 2</body></html>');
                w.document.close();
            </SCRIPT>
        </HEAD> 
        <BODY>
            Page 1
        </BODY>
</HTML>

The character set of the document starts out as "unicode" and wasn't changing no matter how I set the meta tags - only by explicitly changing the character set was I able to get clear text.

The problem now is that IE uses the wrong page! Even though I have the tab selected for page 2 the e-mail comes up with the content of page 1.

If I view the source or print the page I see the content for page 2. But if I save or e-mail the page I get the content for page 1.

I can save the content of page 2 if I change the save type to "Webpage, HTML only" but that's not the default so it will confuse people.

I'm assuming this is because the new tab still has the file name of the initial page - I'm trying to figure out if I can get the window to open with no connection to the initial page.

Answer 2

You can specify the encoding of a page explicitly by using the Content-Type header.

For example

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

specifies the content is in the Latin-1 alphabet used by most Western countries.

Send page by email, charset error

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solution2
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Send page by email, charset error

Question

2 answers

solution1 1 ACCPTED 2013-05-03 13:36:54

solution2 0 2012-07-16 10:12:49

solution1
1 ACCPTED 2013-05-03 13:36:54

solution2
0 2012-07-16 10:12:49