ISO-8859-1

Hi ,
 
Here is a small jsp code which I used for proof of concept for a multi
lingual project.
 
The interesting observation is that even if I put ISO-8859-1 as charset
in the meta tag it works for all languages. I tested it for Japanese,
Korean, Arabic and French (using IME on Windows 2000).
 
As far as I know ISO-8859-1 is supposed to cover only western european
languages. I'm suprised to find that it even supports the Asian
languages.
 
Can anyone please explain me how can it support the Asian language ?
 
Regards,
Sourav
 
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The jsp file name is i18na.jsp
 
<%@ page import="java.util.*"%>
<%@ page import="java.io.*"%>
<%
    String ucStr = request.getParameter("jap");
%>
 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<TITLE></TITLE>
 
</HEAD>
<BODY topmargin="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0">
String  = <%= ucStr%>
<FORM name="frmText"
action="http://192.168.119.15:5052/NASApp/fortune/i18na.jsp"
method="post">
<TABLE  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="200">
        <TR>
                <TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="jap" SIZE="30"
value=""></TD>
                <TD><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit"
VALUE="button"></TD>
        </TR>
        <TR>
        </TR>
 
</TABLE>
 

</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 08:42:17 UTC