- From: Tex Texin <texin@bedford.progress.COM>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:51:43 -0500
- To: "Sam Sun" <ssun@CNRI.Reston.Va.US>, "Misha Wolf" <misha.wolf@reuters.com>, "www international" <www-international@w3.org>, "Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org>
Why don't we send microsoft bug reports directly to a few of the Microsoft folks on this list, instead of the unicode list? tex On Nov 21, 10:35am, Sam Sun wrote: > Subject: Re: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com > There is a similar bug from Front Page 97, the Microsoft's web authering > tool. > > When used to generate HTML documents using Simplified Chinese Character Set > encoding, it uses illegal charset name "gb_2312-80". > > I believe the right charset name should be "gb-2312-80". Note that it's not > a underscore > character between "gb" and "2312", but a hyphen character. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Thanks, > Sam > ssun@cnri.reston.va.us > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com> > To: www international <www-international@w3.org>; Unicode Discussion > <unicode@unicode.org> > Date: Thursday, November 20, 1997 2:42 PM > Subject: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com > > > >If anyone from Microsoft is listening, please note that ... > > > >My colleague, Charles Wicksteed, has spotted a serious problem at > ><www.microsoft.com>. Many pages, including the page <www.microsoft.com>, > >contain an illegal charset name. Note that I am not referring to page > ><www.microsoft.com/ie40.asp>, which contains a legal charset name. > > > >The illegal name is "ISO8859-1". The IANA charset register does not > >contain such an alias for "ISO-8859-1" and many browsers do not recognise > >the string "ISO8859-1". > > > >I am glad to see that Front Pad inserts the correct charset name. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > > Misha Wolf Email: misha.wolf@reuters.com 85 Fleet Street > > Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ > > Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > >12th International Unicode Conference, 8-9 Apr 1998, Tokyo, www.unicode.org > > 7th World Wide Web Conference, 14-18 Apr 1998, Brisbane, www7.conf.au > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, > >except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of > >Reuters Ltd. > > > > >-- End of excerpt from Sam Sun -- ------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Manager International Products Progress Software Corp. Voice: +1-781-280-4271 14 Oak Park Fax: +1-781-280-4949 Bedford, MA 01730 USA http://www.progress.com texin@bedford.progress.com ------------------------------------------------------- Klaatu Berata Nicto
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