On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:55 +1200, zcat wrote:
Also it claims utf-8 but uses Windows-1252, and we all know who's authoring tools do THAT.
Am I allowed to mention this at the May meeting? Please?
This a bit of a pet peeve of mine, especially since it means that lots of " and ` ' characters ("smart quotes") get rendered incorrectly. But users of those tools don't know that the tools are (deliberately) doing something that will work on windows PCs and not others. I'm sure if you politely point it out and explain that it is done deliberately, you might educate end users. But even many linux geeks will glaze over and ignore you if you start talking about character sets... people don't care - if it looks right for them, they assume it will look right for you. In this particular case, the problem is that neither the IIS web server nor the page specify a character encoding, so it's up to your browser's default. But I doubt Nandor has any control over the webserver. John