Re: Netsurf and the Euro

[Alexander Ausserstorfer]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
          James Bursa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Friday 18 January 2008, Alexander Ausserstorfer wrote:
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>           James Bursa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >These are some possible reasons for it not working:
>> >
>> >1. There is a problem with the page. What is the URL?
>>
>> http://gastgeber.miesbach.de/gzi00041.htm
>
>The page is not correct. It is using the Windows-1252 encoding, but doesn't 
>specify that in the headers or in the HTML. NetSurf's default is Latin-1, 
>which doesn't have the Euro.
>
>> The equivalent HTML-code is:
>>
>> <br>30,&#150; bis 45,&#150; &#128; pro Person und Tag<br>
>
>The page has actual characters, not entities like this. The meaning is 
>different. HTML entities always refer to Unicode numbers, irrespective of the 
>page encoding. So &#150; or &#128; will never work, because Unicode has 
>nothing there. NetSurf displays them as
>
>00 and 00
>96     80
>
>respectively (hexadecimal).

Ah - that's the point! Thank you very much for the information. I'll
inform the webmaster.

Alex'