Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:44:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@freefall.freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error in name Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960917183025.21914J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960917161826.265L-100000@nike.efn.org>
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > that's interesting... over here (under Lynx) it shows up as Smren > Schmidt... what I think is the problem is that it's trying to use a high > bit chars on a terminal that doesn't support it like mine... because I > looked at the source (I didn't before I know) and it says, ø so it > really more of a problem with the browsers than it is with the source... Yes. By using ø the author does not have to make any assumptions about the target viewing environment. By using ø, the context of an ISO 8859-1 environment is assumed, possibly in error. In the context of HTTP, unless otherwize specified, documents are assumed to be encoded with ISO 8859-1 so technically ø is safe; the browser should do any translation necessary (to another encoding, or to a 7 bit code set). In practice? I don't know... [this email message assumes an ISO 8859-1 environment] -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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