> I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things > like apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I > believe this is a problem with character sets in Windows versus > Linux.
You are correct. The character set used in the English-speaking Windows world by default is so-called code page 1252, which is slightly incompatible with Latin1. Many web pages that are actually written with Windows 1252 characters incorrectly claim in their content-types that they are Latin1. http://www.jwz.org/doc/charsets.html > I'm assuming that if I include the proper "locale" in Linux, this > problem will go away. Maybe, or maybe not. The real problem is that either (a) the web pages you're viewing should be reporting their content-types correctly or (b) your browser does not correctly interpret the bytes in those web pages as characters, even though the charset is getting reported properly. > Does anyone know how to solve this... My copies of Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird have a menu option that let you hard-wire the character set of the page you're viewing. Set it to "Windows 1252", or something like that, and you're off to the races. Lucas -- Lucas Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tired of getting duplicate copies of mailing list messages? I respect the 'mail-followup-to' header field: http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
