RE: Modified soap12-part0.html from Nilo Mitra (EUS) on 2003-05-16 (www-archive@w3.org from May 2003)

From: Nilo Mitra (EUS) <Nilo.Mitra@am1.ericsson.se>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:44:51 -0500
To: "'Martin Gudgin'" <mgudgin@microsoft.com>, Volker Wiechers <volker.wiechers@sap.com>
Cc: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, W3C Public Archive <www-archive@w3.org>
Message-ID: <77BEF8ACD6CB1B4DA605D9D9CF554AEB126A6C@eamrcnt727.exu.ericsson.se>

Volker:

  >  
 > > Changing the iso-8859-1 chars to there encoded 
 > > representations Åke Jógvan Øyvind -> &Aring;ke J&oacute;gvan 
 > > &Oslash;yvind will not change the document at all but might 
 > > stop confusing people that are not HTML, XML UTF9 etc. experts :)
 > 
 > But when people view the HTML they should just see Åke 
 > Jógvan Øyvind... And that's what I see write now in my 
 > browser. Sounds more like a browser bug to me.
 > 
 > Gudge
  > > >>
 
It seems to me that you may have set (perhaps inadvertently) your browser's
character encoding setting (typically under the View menu item) to UTF-8.
Volker, can you reset it to "Auto-select" and see if you browser cannot automatically
pick up the correct encoding ISO 8859-1 of the html document and display the
wretched (made up) name correctly in all instances.

Thanks,
Nilo

Received on Friday, 16 May 2003 13:45:12 UTC