Set charset of canvas or grapesjs to UTF-8
Hi @MariusDK the iframe in the canvas doesn't use any particular charset so it should depend on the parent page or at least, due to HTML5, be in UTF-8 FYI, if you need to get the iframe element (for any kind of manipulation) you can do this editor.Canvas.getFrameEl()
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Hey @artf ,
How to get UTF-8 encoding from canvas in angular 8. I need this because i encode btoa from frontend and send to server. Server use base64 to decode with UTF-8 and special characters like spanish are not recognized by server.
Please help me.
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Hi @MariusDK the iframe in the canvas doesn't use any particular charset so it should depend on the parent page or at least, due to HTML5, be in UTF-8
FYI, if you need to get the iframe element (for any kind of manipulation) you can do this editor.Canvas.getFrameEl()
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