Re: HTML - i18n / NCR & charsets from Drazen Kacar on 1996-11-27 (www-html@w3.org from November 1996)

From: Drazen Kacar <Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:53:58 +0100 (MET)
To: Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it (Dirk.vanGulik)
Cc: www-html@w3.org, dirkx@elec.jrc.it
Message-Id: <199611270253.DAA08970@jagor.srce.hr>

Dirk.vanGulik wrote:

> Small bit of text on i18n-html and possible problems with
> the Numerical char-index/code references into a unicode
> rather than the announced charset in HTTP; and the lack
> of signalling out-of-band of this break with current practice.
[...]

Current practice? This is the current practice:

You label your document with Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-2

Then you put &aelig; in your document, for example. And user gets Latin 2
character on the screen instead of Latin 1 &aelig;

This is with Netscape 3.0 and earlier versions. I don't know what MSIE does,
I never managed to learn how to use Windows.

> Some possible solutions are proposed:
[...]

Ask the browser wendors to fix brain damaged behaviour.

-- 
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dave@zemris.fer.hr

Received on Tuesday, 26 November 1996 21:54:05 UTC