Re: Jpeses chars when displaying French in HTML?

Jane Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
(B>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:03:30 +0900, "Fabian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(B>wrote:
(B>>The only solution to using French and Japanese in the same page is to
(B>>encode teh text as unicode, with teh appropriate meta heading ("utf-8").
(B
(B>Thank you but... this is not the issue I have :-) The issue is that
(B>there's obviously a bug in the HTML rendering engine that IE uses, and
(B>on which Eudora relies to display HTML. As a result, when the user has
(B>Jpese in addition to French locale installed, any byte > 128 is
(B>considered to be Japanese, unless told otherwise by a META tag, as
(B>shown in the bitmap I gave.
(B
(BI understand what your problem is, but it is *not* a bug in rendering.
(BIt's to do with the locale assumption made when a page turns up without
(Bwithout any coding information. Somehow, you have IE set to default to
(B(probably) Japanese-autodetect. When a page turns up without either a 
(BMIME header or a <meta http  charset= ..> it does its best in Japanese.
(BI don't use Whinedoze or IE much, but I bet somewhere in "Internet
(Boptions" you have Japanese ahead of other languages in the list supported.
(BIf so, try deleting the Japanese, or at least moving it down the list.
(B
(BDo your French accents recover when you select 
(BView/Encoding/Western European (ISO)
(B
(B-- 
(BJim Breen
(Bhttp://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
(BComputer Science & Software Engineering,
(BMonash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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