[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> If you see "<html lang=ja>" then the page should use the font 
> specified by the Japanese setting by default. [..] "Encoding" 
> is fairly irrelevent to this, afaik 
> <http://ken2403king.kir.jp/form.htm>

ThatÂs a funny one, indeed. When I opened it in Mozilla it was
displayed as åæååååäåæååå.For a moment I thought it
was Chinese (which I do not know) but it is gibberish. Mozilla
thought it was Chinese Simplified GB 18030. The source says <html
LANG="ja">. It is Japanese with shift-jis encoding, in reality it
says ãåãåããããçãèã. (IsnÂt Unicode fun, allowing to put
both variants in a mail message, just by copying from the Mozilla
screen like this..)

So, isnÂt the LANG attribute *more* irrelevant, because it did not
help Mozilla (1.5a) to display the text correctly? A META tag
attribute "charset=shift-jis" added to (a copy of) the page did.
DoesnÂt that mean that "encoding" is more relevant than "language"?

Regards, Jan







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