Claude Schneegans wrote: > >>(which you know doesn't contain the euro symbol) > > Here we go again...
indeed. > ISO8859-1 does not contain œ either, used in many French words; right. another thing to watch out for. > Every body knows this and is able to use the HTML or numeric > representation instead; no, i wouldn't say everybody knows. else the old i18n mm forums wouldn't have had so many postings on this subject. > Anyway, the windows-1252 code, which is a super set of ISO8859-1 does right but again hardly everybody knows this. > and both MSIE and Mozilla display it, even when instructed to work with > ISO8859-1. and all the world's databases, etc.? > It appears that both Microsoft and Mozilla have decided to support > Windows-1252 codes, even when in ISO8859-1 mode. based on what evidence? > Try this in an HTML file: <META http-equiv="content-type" > content="text/html;charset=iso8859-1"> > put here a character code 128, and it works. html's not cf but you already know that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:199670 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54

