On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 02:42:42PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: |Darren O. Benham: | |> > Yes.. but the person being served the wrong page will most likely have the |> > characterset loaded that's necessary to make sense of his language name at |> > the bottom of the screen. | |Me: | |> Not necessarily, modern browsers configure themselves automatically |> corresponding to what the document says. | |I just tested it in my Netscape (4.7 under Linux), and since the Swedish |version of the page is clearly indicated (in a meta http-equiv tag) as being |iso-8859-1, I can *not* force Netscape to use Japanese encoding instead, so |I can never see the Japanese characters at the bottom. Neither can I get |Chinese. So this simply doesn't work.
Yes, this is also what I encountered. Although removing the encoding part from the HTML corrects the problem, this doesn't seem to be the right approach. Maybe the only universal solution is to use graphics? -- Anthony Wong.
