[WEB4LIB] Re: foreign language characters in browsers

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Florence Tang wrote:

> 
> IE does a great job with multiple languages.  Go to View, Encoding
> and then More.  Choose which language you want.  You will be taken to
> the IE website to download the encoding.  The only thing bad about
> this is that you need to know which encoding a webpage is supposed to
> be in.  It can present an Arabic webpage in Chinese characters which
> do not make any sense until you change the encoding to Arabic.

Well-made web pages will tell the browser what character set they are using,
and even what language. With that information, a properly configured browser
can display the data correctly. However, if the page doesn't tell the browser
that information, you may have to help.

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