- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:40:45 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 10:42a -0400 09/08/97, Chris Maden wrote:
> [Volker Kroll]
> > BTW: are there browsers out there which cannot display the
> > alphanumeric umlauts?
>
> By this, I assume you mean numeric character references, like ü
> for ü. My experience is that most Mac browsers display numeric
> character references in the *system* character set, which is not the
> same as ISO 8859-1. I know that this causes e-with-acute (é) to
> be displayed as e-with-grave on Mac Netscape 2.0, whereas é
> works.
Really? I never had a problem with Netscape, only Explorer. Does the
offending document contain a charset parameter (META tag or whatever)?
My experience with Navigator (through v3.0) was that   *always*
produced a nonbreaking space. Explorer screws it up, though. :/
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Received on Monday, 8 September 1997 18:51:00 UTC