Re: Debian WWW CVS: gecko

[Anthony Wong <ypwong@debian.org>]

On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 02:42:42PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
|Darren O. Benham:
|
|> > Yes.. but the person being served the wrong page will most likely have the
|> > characterset loaded that's necessary to make sense of his language name at
|> > the bottom of the screen.
|
|Me:
|
|> Not necessarily, modern browsers configure themselves automatically
|> corresponding to what the document says.
|
|I just tested it in my Netscape (4.7 under Linux), and since the Swedish
|version of the page is clearly indicated (in a meta http-equiv tag) as being
|iso-8859-1, I can *not* force Netscape to use Japanese encoding instead, so
|I can never see the Japanese characters at the bottom. Neither can I get
|Chinese. So this simply doesn't work.

Yes, this is also what I encountered.

Although removing the encoding part from the HTML corrects the
problem, this doesn't seem to be the right approach. Maybe the only
universal solution is to use graphics?

-- 
Anthony Wong.