RE: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers from by way of Martin Duerst on 2002-09-25 (www-international@w3.org from July to September 2002)

From: by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:19:21 +0900
To: www-international@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20020926071913.0382bed8@localhost>

 > You would be happy, but others might not- the standard specifically says
 > that the http charset takes precedence.
 > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2

Yup.  I guess I could argue both ways.  The server admins want control;
the users want control, the latter lose :-)

 > However, what you say about user control of web server facilities being
 > up to the administrator and not the page's author is true.
 > Some of the servers allow users some control through directory-based
 > files.
 >
 > I can send you a sample .htaccess file privately, if it will be of use
 > to you.

Please.

Received on Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:40:50 UTC