Why strange characters on my DataPage?
Question:
Why strange characters on my DataPage?
Answer:
Strange characters appear in your deployed DataPages when the data in your database includes non-English characters but the encoding of your page is not set to UTF-8.
Caspio Bridge supports all non-English characters including double-byte characters. Caspio Bridge encoding utilizes UTF-8. Therefore, to properly display back these characters in your deployed applications you must instruct the browser to use UTF-8 Unicode standard.
This is done by adding the following code to the header of the web page where the DataPage is deployed. The header of your web page is the area between <head> and </head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
