See also http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html to set the 'charset'
parameter in the Content-Type header of HTTP. Browser will give priority to
this encoding.
Francosi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Kass [mailto:jameskass@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:55 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Cc: ttomosky@freemarkets.com
> Subject: Re: Programmatic control of character set
>
>
> Thomas Tomosky wrote,
>
> >
> > On our web site, can I force the visitor's character set to
> be UTF-8?
> > Unless their
> > browser is set up properly, they can't view the site
> properly. As an
> > alternative to
> > providing instructions to them on how to do this, I would like to
> > programmatically set
> > the character encoding to UTF-8. How can I do that?
> >
>
> The character set should be declared in the <head> section of
> the HTML,
> this should force the browser to load the page in the desired
> character
> set automatically.
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> For more info about character sets and valid HTML, please see:
> http://validator.w3.org/
>
> Best regards,
>
> James Kass.
>
>
>
>
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