Curtis Poe wrote: > > --- fliptop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > > > > > i could, since both statements do the same thing. now that i think > > about it, i really don't know why i still do it manually. force of > > habit, i guess. that's the beauty of perl, 'tmtowtdi'! > > That's *almost* correct. CGI.pm also states the "charset" that the document is to >be rendered > with: > > C:\>perl -MCGI -e "$q=CGI->new;print $q->header" > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 well, as you'll see in the next step, i include this line in the head section of the html document: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> does that do the same thing? in any case, i'll change the cgi code to use the cgi->header() method. thanks for the tip.
