Re: charset enquiry

Hi

On Thu 03-Jan-2002 at 10:54:45AM -0000, Scarlett Julian (ED) wrote:
> 
> does the charset of an html document matter interms of accessibility?

I guess some user agents, especially old ones, might have problems with some
char sets, especially non latin ones. 

> I have inherited an html page created in M$ Word that has the meta tag
> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
> charset=windows-1252">
> 
> Whilst stripping out the bloat-code I was going to change the charset
> to iso-8859-1 but am now wondering what the side effects of doing this
> might be (if any)

The only side affect I can think of is that people using platforms other
than windows will find the document more accessible :-)

For example browsers such as Netscape 4 on Linux replaces MS 'smart
quotes' with question marks.

Chris

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Received on Thursday, 3 January 2002 08:53:31 UTC