Re: extended characters

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:38:30 +0200, Meph (UZS...@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
: You need a font tag which tells the browser that it should use a font
: which supports this extended characters. The problem is that Windows

Actually this should be handled by specifying a suitable charset in the
Content-Type header, which is properly included in the HTTP headers but
can[1] be specified in a META tag:

  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=ibm852">

I have no idea if that's the right codepage number - anyone care to
enlighten me?

The problem is that the support for this is limited at best. I suppose the
safest way would be to specify a font containing the desired characters
_in addition to_ specifying the proper charset. But that's mean you'd have
to try to guess the names of the fonts available to the viewer. :-(

The &#nnnn; entities refer to Unicode numbers - I suppose all the DOS
extended characters must have Unicode equivalents, but I have no idea what
the codes are. And the support for that is probably even more limited.

Anyway, none of them are US-ASCII characters, so this doesn't really
belong here.

[1] This may or may not work. Some browsers will redraw the screen if they
encounter such a tag. And don't even think about specifying any other type
than text/html! ;-)

-- 
Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi) | Was at a bookstore today, [snip] and noticed
  http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/   | "Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 for Dummies"
Will fix broken HTML for food | . . . and thought "Yes".  -- Jeff Vinocur

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