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Re: 1.3.2: bash: Swedish characters not displayed (beeps instead)
David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> writes:
> I cheated and put 8-bit characters directly in the HTML. Is this a
> problem? My copy of Netscape doesn't seem to mind. Could people have
> a look and report if it's a problem with their browser? (No need to
> respond if it works fine.)
Which encoding of 8-bit characters? It's at least bad citizenship to
use other than ASCII without signalling the encoding. Please add a
character encoding declaration to the HTML header, as follows:
<HEAD>
. . .
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
. . .
</HEAD>
and then many more browsers on many more platforms will see the right thing.
ht
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