On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:24:35PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > If you see "<html lang=ja>" then the page should use the font > > specified by the Japanese setting by default. [..] "Encoding" > > is fairly irrelevent to this, afaik > > <http://ken2403king.kir.jp/form.htm> > > ThatÂs a funny one, indeed. When I opened it in Mozilla it was > displayed as åæååååäåæååå.For a moment I thought it > was Chinese (which I do not know) but it is gibberish. Mozilla
> So, isnÂt the LANG attribute *more* irrelevant, because it did not > help Mozilla (1.5a) to display the text correctly? A META tag > attribute "charset=shift-jis" added to (a copy of) the page did. > DoesnÂt that mean that "encoding" is more relevant than "language"? Encoding is more relevant to being able to decode the text. It's not relevant to deciding which font to use. (Well, if you don't have a language tag, the encoding can be used to help guess it, but not if it's UTF-8.) That's what he said, of course. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
