Re: Arabisation and character sets

Reinier van Kleij wrote:

> So, even when I am running Netscape on a Microsoft OS, it should not behave
> itself this way. It should look at the <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"
> CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-6"> and say "Hey, this is iso-8859-6 so
> let's render it". Netscape should not assume that all files it reads are
> saved with the character set of the OS it runs on...

Netscape Navigator does not support Arabic (yet). That is why it does not render
iso-8859-6.

> Again it seems that IE is a little more "democratic" than Netscape: at
> least it recognizes the Content-type tag, so it does not force us to use
> the MS code page 1256...

Netscape has recognized META charset for quite a while. Probably longer than MSIE.
However, we don't support Arabic yet.

Erik

Received on Wednesday, 1 April 1998 12:37:47 UTC