If you look at the html some more you see the english version
is at http://www.radio.org.lv/index_a.htm
The content-type charset=windows-1257 seems buried in a <META> tag.
I don't know enough about what a browser should do with this info.
If netscape ignored it you'd have been OK I think (e.g. was fine in lynx).
Karl Runge
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
> I've go a question I was hoping someone could clue me in on. I've got a
> basic idea what a charset is, but have never played with them to any
> extent. While playing on the web a friend and I went to the site
> <http://www.radio.org.lv/> using GNU/Linux Netscape. The site's page came
> up in all ???. Strange, I thought.
>
> Viewing this on a Windows machine using Netscape the site came up just
> fine. I noticed in the HTML source's header that the
> charset=windows-1257. I'm assuming that's the problem why I can't see the
> page under Netscape.
> My questions are: can someone smack me with a clue-bat and point me to some
> info on charsets in general? Also, can someone explain to me exactly
> what's going on with Netscape and possibly how I can fix this so I can read
> the page (I've now got a definite desire to listen to Latvian radio!:-).
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