- From: Nickolay Saukh <nms@nns.ru>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 20:32:43 +0300
- To: yergeau@alis.ca
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> And most clients default to whatever is > the character encoding of the platform they're running on. If you > run Mosaic on Russian Windows, it defaults to Microsoft's version of > a cyrillic code page, without even the possibility of displaying > ISO-8859-1. This is current practice. Not true. It just displays text with configured fonts. I can display iso-8859-1 after manual reconfiguration of fonts. There are browsers which can switch fonts automagically (Alis among them). But most of browsers (Macintosh ones are exception) did not translate incoming documents/outgoing form data from "native" encoding to network one. Even does not provide charset information for server. That is why enforced to use User-Agent by servers in attempt to guess browser native encoding.
Received on Monday, 12 February 1996 09:36:52 UTC