[riscosweb] Re: Browsers not responding to charset=ISO-8859-2
- From: Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: riscosweb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:44:35 +0000 (GMT)
On 14 Nov, Russell Hafter - Lists <rh_lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> But it seems totally the wrong way round to me.
Me too. I'm starting to get quite confused by all of this.....
> If the encoding that the server sends cannot be overridden by a different
> encoding in a particular page of a website, how on earth is one meant to
> construct a website that may require any number of different charsets?
I agree with you. It doesn't quite make sense.
> Or do I have to find a separate hosting company just for Japanese pages,
> who will promise me that their servers will never send out any charset
> statements?
Well, at least you've currently got a hosting site who are flexible enough
to be able to offer per user server settings, so if we work out exactly
what you require, I'm sure I can configure your particular webspace in a
particular way.
However, I'd have thought there ought to be a way of overwriting the
default values, otherwise what's the point of having meta tags on the page
in the first place?
> It all seems utterly crazy to me[1]. What is the logic anyway in a server
> sending out charset definitions? Surely that ought to be down to a) the
> document writer and b) the person actually reading the document.
Indeed.
Paul
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