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The Steelseries scripts are supplied in UTF-8 format, if you have edited the files and saved them in another file format, that can be cause.<br> | The Steelseries scripts are supplied in UTF-8 format, if you have edited the files and saved them in another file format, that can be cause.<br> | ||
Another cause can be the hosting page, if that uses a character set other than UTF-8 you can again get character corruptions. | Another cause can be the hosting page, if that uses a character set other than UTF-8 you can again get character corruptions. | ||
If you are using the Saratoga templates then please take a look at this: [http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,54749.msg459638.html#msg459638 from Ken True]. | |||
== Using the SteelSeries Gauges with the Saratoga Templates == | |||
The Saratoga templates from Ken True use the ISO-8859-n character set particular to the language you are using. This is fundamentally incompatible with the UTF-8 character set used by the SteelSeries gauges. | |||
If you are using the Saratoga templates then please take a look at this: [http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,54749.msg459638.html#msg459638 from Ken True].<br> | |||
Another solution for the Saratoga templates using an iframe from Ken [http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=4561&start=673 can be found here]. | |||
== My HTML page gets corrupted when Cumulus processes it == | == My HTML page gets corrupted when Cumulus processes it == | ||
This happens if you have used extended character sets in your gauges-ssT.htm file and then saved it as UTF-8 (as you should). Unfortunately Cumulus does not understand UTF-8 and when it processes the page it will re-save it as ANSI encoded. In this case the only option is to manually edit the gauges-ssT.htm file yourself and replace the tags <#xxxx> with your station data, then save as gauges-ss.htm (in UTF-8 format) and FTP the file to your web site manually. | This happens if you have used extended character sets in your gauges-ssT.htm file and then saved it as UTF-8 (as you should). Unfortunately Cumulus does not understand UTF-8 and when it processes the page it will re-save it as ANSI encoded. In this case the only option is to manually edit the gauges-ssT.htm file yourself and replace the tags <#xxxx> with your station data, then save as gauges-ss.htm (in UTF-8 format) and FTP the file to your web site manually. | ||