Tom, on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 22:30 Tom Livingston wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:42:59 -0400, Steve Clason > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Most likely your host is serving this: >> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > So if the host is serving this, this isn't something I can change when > making a page, right? Obviously, I can change the meta but should I? You should use UTF-8. (Even that it does'nt give you lots of benefits if your pages are english only. But believe me, for any other language with special chars it's worth to switch.) Read: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-unicode-xml-20030613/ Browsers use in first place the encoding the server sets in the http header. If nothing is set, it uses the encoding indicated by the meta tag. It isn't enough to just switch the meta-tag to UTF-8. You have to save the documents in UTF-8. ISO-8859-1 is a one byte encoding while UTF-8 is multibyte. (1-4 bytes). Probably you have some influence on what the server serves by modifying a .htaccess file in the root directory of your web space. You can set the encoding there. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset I hope that helps. regards Martin ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
