2009/2/16 bill lam <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, June Kim wrote:
>> If a HTML page is to be read by international readers, it is
>> recommended to give the proper charset information in the page. It's
>> because the browser will use the default charset for the user and
>> hence it will display totally difference characters
>> instead(considering J's heavy use of symbol characters that's a big
>> problem depending on the user's environment -- for example, a
>> backslash is displayed as a Korean currency if there's no charset
>> info), if without any information about the charset of the specific
>> page.
>>
>> <head> or <HEAD>
>>
>> in any html files under "help" directory should be replaced with
>>
>> <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; 
>> charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> I suppose UTF-8 would be a better choice. A minor problem is that it

Yes, you are right. UTF-8 is a better choice.

So, the first line should be:

<head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">

see also http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset

> will become impossible to guess the intended locale, however not a big
> issue I suppose.

Locale isn't a problem here.

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