Re: exchanging Arabic data in utf-8

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 19:20:10 EDT


IANA charset names have always been case-insensitive, and it
would be very strange if suddenly Microsoft (or anybody else)
made them case-sensitive.

I suggest you make sure that the header written out by the
CGI script says

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

and try again. If it doesn't work, put up an example page
on the web so that we can have a look at it.

Regards, Martin.

At 14:19 01/08/22 -0700, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:
>From: "Iman Saad" <imansaad@aucegypt.edu>
> > I tried adding the following header in the section
> > of the cgi script that includes the html code, but that did not change
> > anything:
> >
> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
>
>If you look at the following link (all on one line)
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.
>asp
>
>it quite specifically wants the IANA name for UTF-8, which would be utf-8
>(lowercase) rather than the uppercase you specified. Try that and see if it
>helps....
>
>
>MichKa
>
>Michael Kaplan
>Trigeminal Software, Inc.
>http://www.trigeminal.com/
>
>



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