Why don't we send microsoft bug reports directly to a few of the
Microsoft folks on this list, instead of the unicode list?
tex
On Nov 21, 10:35am, Sam Sun wrote:
> Subject: Re: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com
> There is a similar bug from Front Page 97, the Microsoft's web
authering
> tool.
>
> When used to generate HTML documents using Simplified Chinese Character
Set
> encoding, it uses illegal charset name "gb_2312-80".
>
> I believe the right charset name should be "gb-2312-80". Note that it's
not
> a underscore
> character between "gb" and "2312", but a hyphen character.
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
> ssun@cnri.reston.va.us
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
> To: www international <www-international@w3.org>; Unicode Discussion
> <unicode@unicode.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 1997 2:42 PM
> Subject: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com
>
>
> >If anyone from Microsoft is listening, please note that ...
> >
> >My colleague, Charles Wicksteed, has spotted a serious problem at
> ><www.microsoft.com>. Many pages, including the page
<www.microsoft.com>,
> >contain an illegal charset name. Note that I am not referring to page
> ><www.microsoft.com/ie40.asp>, which contains a legal charset name.
> >
> >The illegal name is "ISO8859-1". The IANA charset register does not
> >contain such an alias for "ISO-8859-1" and many browsers do not
recognise
> >the string "ISO8859-1".
> >
> >I am glad to see that Front Pad inserts the correct charset name.
> >
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- > > Misha Wolf Email: misha.wolf@reuters.com 85 Fleet Street > > Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ > > Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > >12th International Unicode Conference, 8-9 Apr 1998, Tokyo, www.unicode.org > > 7th World Wide Web Conference, 14-18 Apr 1998, Brisbane, www7.conf.au > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, > >except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of > >Reuters Ltd. > > > > >-- End of excerpt from Sam Sun-- ------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Manager International Products Progress Software Corp. Voice: +1-781-280-4271 14 Oak Park Fax: +1-781-280-4949 Bedford, MA 01730 USA http://www.progress.com texin@bedford.progress.com ------------------------------------------------------- Klaatu Berata Nicto
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