Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-09 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi, Just to clarify... ISO-8859-1 is not 'Plain American English'. The charset for that is US-ASCII. ISO-8869-1 is extended ASCII (Latin1), and covers glyphs from most Western European languages. ( French (fr), Spanish (es), Catalan (ca), Basque (eu), Portuguese (pt), Italian (it), Albanian (sq)

Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-09 Thread Jimmy George
OOps folks That reply from me was completely wrong! SORRY. I was thinking of the character set as being part of the language it is being used in. Or at least I thought I was thinking. JimmyG @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-09 Thread Jimmy George
Hello Octavian embedded in the text that comes down to you in the header section - not shown of course when you view your email or web page is Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" which means you are typing plain american english. The engines look for 'Content-Type" and decode t

Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-08 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Getting the web page language Does it matter what language, or what charset? You can always look at this and the lang="foo" tags to try to determine what language, or at least what charset, the page is

Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-08 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Does it matter what language, or what charset? You can always look at this and the lang="foo" tags to try to determine what language, or at least what charset, the page is in. Of course, a charset (like iso-8869-1) can cover many languages, but at least you can narrow it down a little if you d