Oh thanks, this is helpful. I can see that it is very complicated to use Unicode standards.
well it can be. But if you've got a new browser (mozilla 1.6), and a reasonably new OS, - Solaris 9/XP/JDS then you should be fine for viewing UTF-8 encoded pages in most languages.
I have seen that on that page I can read the text in romanian language, but even though I can read well some chars, I am not able to read other special chars and I can read just question marks instead. I know that I might need to install some fonts in order to be able to read them correctly,
yes. 9 times out of 10, the question mark problem is indicative of a font issue - not an encoding one.
but it might be a problem with the UTF encoding of that page,
no!
because as I said, I am able to read Google's page without problems.
Google doesn't always use UTF-8. For example, if you use Netscape 4.7x (no one should use it, but it's out there...) and fetch http://www.google.com, it'll return the page iso-8859-1 encoded.
If you fetch http://google.co.jp it'll return it encoded as Shift_jis (or some other native japanese encoding) etc. i.e. Google recognises that older browsers don't really support UTF-8 well - so they send content in native encodings instead.
Teddy
----- Original Message ----- From: "mt m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:23 PM Subject: Re: Output Unicode
> I think it's your font support.
>
> Go to http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
>
> This multilingual page has strings in many languages - all UTF-8 encoded.
>
> If your browser can't render text for a specific language on this page,
then
> the problem is your font support.
>
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