- From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:53:29 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: Julian.Scarlett@sheffield.gov.uk
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 -- Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/ everything else http://chris.croome.net/
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