--- fliptop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? Yup. It's the same. The 'http-equiv' meta tag takes its data and and adds it to the response headers from the server, thus accomplishing the same thing. I know that some User Agents ignore meta tags, but I suspect that if they can't handle meta tags, they probably can't handle character sets other than ASCII or extended ASCII. Cheers, Curtis Poe ===== Senior Programmer Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/) "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
