Chris M, >[Charles Wicksteed] >> <http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/iewin95/18.htm> > >These work excellently, for the most part, with MSIE 3.0. After >loading them, I could view the separate announcements in Simplified >and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Romanian. However, the Russian >page didn't work at all, and I'm not sure why. The Central European >service pack includes several Cyrillic fonts, which I believe are >encoded as ISO 8859-5, but MSIE 3.0 doesn't appear to recognize that >encoding declaration. It also can't deal with the all-language pages >in either UTF-8 or NCRs. IE 3.0 supports neither ISO 8859-5 nor Unicode. Both of these will, I hope, be supported by IE 4.0. >Does anyone have an explanation of how MSIE is able to convince the OS >to deal with these encodings, especially the non-8859 ones? WordPad >can differentiate between the differently encoded fonts, but Word >doesn't even get that far. I'd like to be able to take advantage of >this capability, but I can't figure out what it's doing. More >monopolistic practices, I suspect... Lori or Chris P, do you want to respond to this para? >-Chris >-- >Christopher R. Maden One Richmond Square >DynaText SIT Technical Support Providence, RI 02906 USA >Inso Corporation +1.401.421.9550 (voice) >Electronic Publishing Solutions +1.401.521.2030 (facsimile) MishaReceived on Thursday, 6 February 1997 10:33:29 UTC
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