RE: Shift_JIS , UTF-16, iso-2022-jp

> I'm hoping someone can help me. We send out html files for Japanese
> translation. These files are returned with the encoding:
> 
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-16">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="jp">

This is strange.  I don't know of a single instance of using UTF-16 in 
HTML.  "jp" is a country code that should not be associated with
Content-Language.  I highly doubt if the translation company
knows what they are doing.

> tried using other encodings: Shift_JIS, and iso-2022-jp. 

It has to match with the real encoding the page is using.

-kuro

Received on Thursday, 7 November 2002 09:14:24 UTC