Re: Unicode Web pages

Rob Pike wrote:

>I saw your Unicode web page. It's great, but you should know
>it doesn't work with the version of IE 3.0 we have here, 

IE 3.0 doesn't support Unicode.  IE 4.0 will, I believe, do so.

>or Netscape 3.0 on a PC.

It works with Netscape Communicator 4.0 on Win 95/NT.

>You're using charset=UTF-8
>in the HEAD of the HTML document.  Does any browser you know
>handle this the way you expect?>

Netscape Communicator 4.0 does.

>I believe what you're supposed
>to say is charset=UNICODE-1-1-UTF-8.

Both MS and NS have recently moved to "UTF-8".

>-rob pike

Regards,
Misha

Received on Wednesday, 5 February 1997 14:57:08 UTC