Set title and encoding properties for a page – Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 User Manual
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Set title and encoding properties for a page
Note: The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the options described in this
article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see
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The Title/Encoding Page Properties options let you specify the document encoding type that is specific to the language used to author your web
pages as well as specify which Unicode Normalization Form to use with that encoding type.
1. Select Modify > Page Properties, or click the Page Properties button in the text Property inspector.
2. Choose the Title/Encoding category and set the options.
Title Specifies the page title that appears in the title bar of the Document window and most browser windows.
Document Type (DTD) Specifies a document type definition. For example, you can make an HTML document XHTML-compliant by
selecting XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict from the pop-up menu.
Encoding Specifies the encoding used for characters in the document.
If you select Unicode (UTF-8) as the document encoding, entity encoding is not necessary because UTF-8 can safely represent all
characters. If you select another document encoding, entity encoding may be necessary to represent certain characters. For more
information on character entities, see
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Reload Converts the existing document, or reopens it using the new encoding.
Unicode Normalization Form Enabled only if you select UTF-8 as a document encoding. There are four Unicode Normalization Forms. The
most important is Normalization Form C because it’s the most common form used in the Character Model for the World Wide Web. Adobe
provides the other three Unicode Normalization Forms for completeness.
In Unicode, some characters are visually similar but can be stored within the document in different ways. For example, “ë” (e-umlaut) can be
represented as a single character, “e-umlaut,” or as two characters, “regular Latin e” + “combining umlaut.” A Unicode combining character
is one that gets used with the previous character, so the umlaut would appear above the “Latin e.” Both forms result in the same visual
typography, but what is saved in the file is different for each form.
Normalization is the process of making sure all characters that can be saved in different forms are all saved using the same from. That is,
all “ë” characters in a document are saved as single “e-umlaut” or as “e” + “combining umlaut,” and not as both forms in one document.
For more information on Unicode Normalization and the specific forms that can be used, see the Unicode website at
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Include Unicode Signature (BOM) Includes a Byte Order Mark (BOM) in the document. A BOM is 2 to 4 bytes at the beginning of a text file
that identifies a file as Unicode, and if so, the byte order of the following bytes. Because UTF-8 has no byte order, adding a UTF-8 BOM is
optional. For UTF-16 and UTF-32, it is required.
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