Thanks for the hint, Mike, that leads me to try displaying it on Netscape 6.2. And it works!! I had previously tried on IE5.5. As advised, IE6 should be offering better service. Thanks to all who replied my mail.
Will -----Original Message----- From: michael monaghan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:47 PM To: Tay, William Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Problem displaying UTF8 characters in HTML generated by a Perl script Tay, I'm not sure about your code, but you can quickly check if it's a font problem by going to http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html . This page, encoded in utf-8, displays many languages (including Russian). If the Russian renders correctly, then it's not a font issue......... BTW: In my experience, a recent OS with a recent browser - NS7/IE6 generally takes care of font display issues. -mm ----------------------------- http://sun.com/globalization/ Tay, William wrote: > Hi, > > I am developing a Web application using Perl and a database. The Perl > script is responsible for getting data from the database and then > generate a HTML page. The data to be retrieved is encoded in UTF8. > Here's part of my script: > > ... > print( start_html( { -head=>meta({-http_equiv=>'Content-Type', -content=>'text/html; charset=utf-8'}), ... > ... > # Get data from DB > print( "<select name = \"Games\">\n" ); > while ( @row = $statementHandle->fetchrow_array() ) { > print( "<option>" ); > print( "$row[ 2 ]. $row[ 1 ], $row[ 0 ]" ); > $test="$row[ 2 ]. $row[ 1 ], $row[ 0 ]"; > print( "</option>" ); > } > print( "</select>\n" ); > print( h2($test) ); > ... > > $test contains some Russian characters encoded in UTF8. On display, it > showed up as thick bars in the list box. However, print( h2($test) > ) shows the correct Russian characters. I am wondering if it is a font > problem. But if it is, why should the latter be displayed correctly? > > Would appreciate your comments and help. > > Will > > >
