Change the page-encoding language for saving or loading a page

By default, Microsoft FrontPage sets the encoding of pages based on your keyboard language when you first type on a page, or uses the web site's default encoding to determine in what character set to save and load pages. If no site is open, FrontPage uses the default encoding specified for your computer. However, you can specify a different encoding for individual pages.

About saving pages

The HTML encoding option lets you specify which HTML encoding FrontPage should use to save a page. For example, if characters on your page are not recognized by the default encoding, these unrecognized characters are saved by embedding additional information in the page's HTML code, thereby increasing the size of the file.

While a few characters might not pose a problem, you probably don't want an entire page of characters saved this way, so you should specify the correct encoding for the page. For example, if the default page encoding for the web site  is US/Western European but the page is written in Greek characters, you should set the encoding for saving pages to Greek or Multilingual.

When you save the page, the HTML encoding you specify is included in the page's HTML code, telling Web browsers how to read the text in the page.

About reloading pages

If a page's HTML encoding is not specified, (for example, a page created in NotePad), FrontPage must guess the page's encoding when it loads the page. If FrontPage guesses incorrectly, the page will not be displayed correctly. You can specify the correct encoding to use when the page is reloaded.

Warning   If the current page is being displayed incorrectly, you might corrupt the contents of the page by saving the page over the original.

To set a pages HTML encoding, use the following procedure.

1. In Page view, right-click the page, click Page Properties on the shortcut menu, and then click the Language tab.
2. Under HTML Encoding, do the following:
• In the Save the document as box, select the character set in which to save the current page.
• In the Reload the current document as box, select the character set in which to load the current page, if the current page is not displaying text correctly.

Tips

• For pages containing a mix of languages, Unicode is a useful encoding; it contains the basic Roman character set, plus characters from languages throughout the world. Unicode corresponds to the Multilingual (UTF-8) option.
• For the euro character to be displayed correctly, your page encoding must be set to either US/Western European or Unicode.