- From: Chris Wendt <christw@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:56:57 -0700
- To: "Bert Bos" <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>, "Nicolas Lesbats" <nlesbats@etu.utc.fr>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
"Bert Bos" <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr> wrote: > The characters 128-255 either have to be encoded as UTF-8 (i.e., using > two bytes for each character), or they have to be entities. > > If you are not using a real UTF-8 editor, you are probably not > generating correct UTF-8. In that case Netscape is correct in ignoring > the accented characters. Maybe IE has some clever error-recovery? IE doesn't have this kind of error recovery. It simply ignores the given syntax and renders in the current default encoding (which can be manually set to UTF-8). As Erik pointed out, the syntax is <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Received on Tuesday, 27 July 1999 11:57:40 UTC