Re: www

From: Jan Pazdziora <adelton@AISA.FI.MUNI.CZ>
Subject: Re: www
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:05:43 GMT

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ag786@YFN.YSU.EDU (Barry Bouwsma) writes:

> >lokalni verzi programu klient pro www ?

>     If this is not well known already, the beta releases of Netscape2.0
> offer support for automatic switching between the Latin-1 character set
> as used in the majority of western European documents and the default,
> and a handful of other encodings, including the ISO 8859-2 encoding which
> would be used in pages written in Czech and Slovak.

>     This is accomplished by the META tag which should be added to an HTML
> document body as follows to give it a MIME charset tagging...

> <META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2">

>     When these new versions of Netscape encounter such a document, they
> will attempt to display it with a Latin-2 font, provided one is available.

>     A stupid example of this, which was primarily written to demonstrate
> this ability of Netscape, can be found temporarily at:

> http://www.vszbr.cz/~guest/

Thank you for this hint. Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of
netscape and it seems to be rather useful. Really, in options/general
preferences/fons you can tell what fonts to use for particular encoding
(previous versions of 2.0 netscape didn't allow that). Also, the META
flag in the home page works, except for:

Netscape: Error
reentrant call to Interrupt window

Netscape starts to display the page in iso-8859-1, then displays the
message and switches into Latin-2. Is this a bug or feature? Is this
a problem with me or with netscape? Has anybody the same problem? It
doesn't happen if I have default lagnuage encoding set to Central
Europe. It doesn't really hurt, just slows things down and fills my
screen with those little windows :-)

Once again, thank you for the META idea and for the discussion that
is taking place now.

--adelton

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