At 4:56p -0400 05/23/96, Rob Migliore wrote:
>We provide data in several languages such as english, polish, and
russian
>and install the necessary fonts on our clients' systems (running ns
>2.02). We would like to encode our documents of another language in a
>way that changes the font or the character set automatically without
>having to switch to options, etc. Actually, I believe that we would
want to
>change the character set. Can anyone comment on this?
>
>Some of these languages that we would be supporting are not supported
>directly by ns2.02, they would have to be user defined. Is it still
>possible to automate the switching of the fonts/character sets?
>
>I've seen the META tag around as follows - does it work?
><
>Im assuming that iso2022-jp is japanese, where can i find the codes
for
>polish or russian?
First off, there is a difference between "language" and "character
set".
There are charsets *associated* with languages, but that's as far as it
goes.
For example, Netscape supports "charset=iso-8859-2" and
"charset=x-mac-ce"
for Central European languages. Note that this covers more than one
language.
You have to determine whether the characters used in Polish are covered
by
one of the supported charsets.
Unfortunately, Netscape only supports the character sets it has
defined:
Enclave "us-ascii",
"iso-8859-1", "x-mac-roman", "iso-8859-2", "x-mac-ce",
"iso-2022-jp","x-sjis", "x-euc-jp",
"euc-kr", "iso-2022-kr",
"gb2312", "gb_2312-80"
"x-euc-tw", "x-cns11643-1", "x-cns11643-2", "big5"
There's no way to use any others and have Netscape take advantage of
it. So
even if you found the name of a Russian character set (such as
iso-8859-5,
which I found in rfc1345), it wouldn't do you any good because Netscape
would
just ignore it.
-Walter <<--wants to know the charset names for MS Windows and
Unix...
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