Changing the display setting for your browser doesn't change how the page
is encoded. The page is still encoded in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) character
set. Changing your view encoding will only mess up the display.
In an earlier post on this thread I suggested that sending a file encoded
as UTF-8 to a browser will work reliably for Western European users... and
Try this search out:
This particular AltaVista site will return a UTF-8 page (you can elect to
make it return something else by clicking on customize... if it returns a
Latin-1 page because you've visited AltaVista before, click on Customize
to change it to UTF-8).
You can clearly see umlauts and other fine German non-ASCII characters on
this page. You can see the underlying encoding by changing the page
encoding to Latin-1. See how the German word "zuruck" (I'd spell
it with the umlaut, but I'm working on the Wyse50 today) acquires two
garbage characters in the middle? That's the UTF-8 bytes displaying
themselves as 8-bit characters.
*IF* the page is already encoded as UTF-8 and tagged with a META tag, you
will see it in a Western European default installation browser of recent
enough vintage to support Unicode.
If the page is encoded as something else, you have to look at it in *THAT*
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, George Zeigler wrote:
> I looked at the Yahoo page given here:
> It has some characters used in Norwegian such as the O with a slash
> throughit. I changed the character set to Unicode (UTF-8) and it no longer
> showed up properly. I thought Unicode showed ISO pages for European sites with
> out any problems. Where have I erred?
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