By default, the HTML publishing templates in Author-it are set to use UTF-8 as the charset and encoding. However, if required, you can override this by assigning an alternative charset in the templates, or by using a body_template.htm file. With this method, all pages using the customized template file will use the specified encoding instead of the default UTF-8 encoding. (The body_template.htm file is set in the topic's Media object on the Web tab.)
Note: The method using the body_template.htm file applies to HTML Pages, XHTML, and HTML Help.
- If no template is selected, or the default template is being used, then the output uses UTF-8.
- If a modified template is being used then the output uses the settings from the template. This means if the charset is set to UTF-16 or ISO-8859-1 by the template, then the published output also uses that charset.
Changing the charset and encoding used by a template:
- Open the template using Notepad.
- Change the charset specified in the header tags.
- Save the template by choosing the "Save As" option and selecting the appropriate Encoding option from the drop-down list.