fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese characters by the way? saqib
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:12 PM Subject: Re: uk.debian.org > Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > > recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the > > address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that > > microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i > > also booted windows and had the same problem. ie asks if you want to > > install support for chinese characters, and if you cancel the page has > > weird stuff all over it. it i go to www.debian.org there is no > > problem. i think this is a serious problem, and could someone please > > tell me who to inform of this strange problem. > > Complain to Microsoft. > > The page DOES contain Chinese characters, as does www.debian.org, of > which it is a mirror. Down at the bottom of the page, there are brief > statements in a number of languages, Chinese among them. Why IE > complains about one but not the other is beyond me. > > The simple workaround, I suppose, would be to go ahead and let IE > install its Chinese character support. If that doesn't work, then maybe > IE just fundamentally can't handle a mixture of character sets on a > single page. > > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]