And also check that your server does not add a charset to the HTTP header.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On Behalf Of Martin Duerst
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:20 AM
> To: Michael (michka) Kaplan; Iman Saad; Unicode List
> Subject: Re: exchanging Arabic data in utf-8
>
>
> 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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