In Netscape 4.73 some Japanese characters being not shown properly in alt tag

Hi All,

I'm having problem in displaying certain Japanese characters in Netscape 4.73 (running on Windows 2000 server) under <alt> tag of image. 

Those characters appear fine when I view the same page in IE. Also even in Netscape when they are put as label/plain text on html page, they appear fine. 
Also, if I do a View Source on the browser and see the resultant HTML page - the characters shown within the <alt> tag appear fine

Some of the characters which are showing such behaviour are - ッ  情 存 and 択.




The jsp I'm using is -

jsp code.............

<html>
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
<% 
   
   String toolTip1 = "¥u30c3";
   String toolTip2 = "¥u60c5";
   String toolTip3 = "¥u5b58";
   String toolTip4 = "¥u629e";
     
  String url1 = "image/en/loginbutton.gif";
 %>
<body>
Tool Tip string = <%=toolTip1%>
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="<%=toolTip1%>" >
<Br>
<Br>
Tool Tip string = <%=toolTip2%>
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="<%=toolTip2%>" >
<Br>
<Br>
Tool Tip string = <%=toolTip3%>
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="<%=toolTip3%>" >
<Br>
<Br>
Tool Tip string = <%=toolTip4%>
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="<%=toolTip4%>" >
</body>
</html>

---------------
The HTML file getting generated (as shown by view source of browser) ------------


<html>




<body>
Tool Tip string 1= ッ
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="ッ" >
<Br>
<Br>
Tool Tip string = 情
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="情" >
<Br>
<Br>
Tool Tip string = 存
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="存" >
<Br>
<Br>
Tool Tip string = 択
<Br>
Image : <img src="image/en/loginbutton.gif" alt="択" >
</body>
</html> 
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Can anyone please let me know what is the reason for some specific characters getting garbled only in case of <alt> tag ? Is it a bug in Netscape ? Any solution for this problem ?

Regards,
Sourav

Received on Wednesday, 5 May 2004 07:38:54 UTC