Re: How-To handle i18n when you don't know charset?

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 12:10:59 EDT

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I think this is some type of mistake. Big5 is not the default encoding for
documents unless you specifically set it that way.

michka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Wood" <alan.wood@context.co.uk>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:36 AM
Subject: RE: How-To handle i18n when you don't know charset?

> Mike Brown kindly supplied some JavaScript to determine the current and
> default encoding for Internet Explorer 4+.
>
> This gives some interesting results for default encoding:
>
> Mac IE 4.5 - utf-8
> Mac IE 5 - utf-8
> Win IE 5.01 - x-user-defined
> Win IE 5.01 SP1 - big5
>
> Would anyone from Microsoft like to explain why a Chinese Traditional
> encoding has been made the default for an English version of IE 5?
>
> Alan Wood
> (Documentation Writer / Web Master)
> Context Limited
> (Electronic publishers of UK and EU legal and official documents)
> mailto:alan.wood@context.co.uk
> http://www.context.co.uk/
> http://www.alanwood.net/ (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
>
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>

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