RE: non-sgml characters

Thanks for the note David. 


    | Effectively any modern browsers does this (except 
    | probably UTF-16, 
    | rather than UTF-8).  


Does this mean that I only have to change the charset element on my meta
tag to "UTF-8", with the *same* big5 text, and the browser will
automatically show the correct characters? If this is what you meant,
let me tell you I have tried it and it doesn't work, not with big5, not
with Shift_JIS and I suspect not with any other languages. Please
correct me if I was trying something incorrectly, which is possible. 

Thanks,
Shashank