Re: Windows character sets and Linux
> 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
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