Hello,
Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my question. It turned out
that I had not placed the charset definition in the correct place in the cgi
script. When placed in its correct place, it worked. Following is the link
to the html form. It's in Arabic. I have embedded the Arabic font, but you
will need IE5 to view it:
http://mishmish.aucegypt.edu/~ali/SignIn.htm
Thank you very much
Iman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>; "Iman Saad"
<imansaad@aucegypt.edu>; "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:20 AM
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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