[kde-linux] Encoding questions (Chusslove Illich)

[Randy Kramer]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 11:56 am, Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 June 2008 15:29, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > One thing I noticed the other day, but forgot to mention:  Yes, there is
> > something on that page that seems to say the page is encoded in iso8859-1:
> >
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
> >
> > But elsewhere on the same page there are lines that suggest that at least
> > some part of it might be encoded in utf-8:
> >
> > google_afs_ie     = 'utf8';                  // select input encoding
> > scheme google_afs_oe     = 'utf8';                  // select output
> > encoding scheme
> I have visited some web page (sorry I don't remember which), where I could 
> select the coding either to read the "outside" text proper to the site (on 
> top and left side), or to read the "message".
> Since whith both settings the undisplayed characters were common french 
> accentuated letters I belive different encodings coexisted but the designer 
> of the page failed to write in some indications about that for the browser.

Perry,

Thanks--I guess like Emanoil said, "welcome to encoding hell". ;-(

Randy Kramer