[jira] [Created] (CTAKES-508) HTMLTextWriter encodes some characters incorrectly in Firefox

[Sean Mullane (JIRA)]

Sean Mullane created CTAKES-508:
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             Summary: HTMLTextWriter encodes some characters incorrectly in 
Firefox
                 Key: CTAKES-508
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-508
             Project: cTAKES
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: ctakes-core
    Affects Versions: 4.0.0
            Reporter: Sean Mullane


Some documents output by the HTML pretty text writer 
(org.apache.ctakes.core.cc.pretty.html.HtmlTextWriter) show up in Firefox 
59.0.3 with the A-with-circumflex character showing up where there should be a 
&nbsp, as described in the StackOverflow post below (in an unrelated context):

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1461907]


This seems to be because the writer implicitly uses UTF-8 but does not specify 
an encoding in the HTML file. Firefox defaults to Western rather than UTF-8 and 
so displays characters incorrectly.

This could be solved by adding a META tag to the HTML documents that are 
written and specifying UTF-8 encoding.



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