Hi Sandeep,
Maybe this wasn't clear, but...
IE 2,3,4.x and Netscape 2, 3, and 4.x will not display Chinese characters
using the UTF-8 encoding as installed. They set the font for the UTF-8
encoding to "Times New Roman" and therefore display black squares (the
"empty glyph") for all Chinese characters.
A lot of us think that you should not send UTF-8 to the browser if you are
concerned about having large numbers of people with older browser versions
(and cannot ensure that they all set the font to something more
approprite, i.e. in a controlled environment such as an intranet). This
appears to be your case.
Short story:
Work in Unicode (your choice, UTF-8 or UTF-16) at the server.
Send UTF-8 to "modern" browsers (IE 5.x, NN 6.x).
Send legacy encodings (such as Big5) to older browsers.
Send UTF-8 to browsers serving languages that are compatible with UTF-8
(Latin script languages in Western and Central Europe mostly).
Regards,
Addison
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Sandeep Krishna wrote:
> hi guys!!
>
> can someone tell me whether all browsers (atleast IE 2,3.0 and Netscape...) support
>encoding/deocding on UTF-8....
>
> and also, can there be an instance of browser (say a primitave version of a Chinese
>Netscape) that supports Big 5 encoding but not UTF-8.
> THis info. is crucial as i expect all users (of the site) to be capable of using
>only UTF-8 encoding.......
> so if there is a user whose browser doesnt support UTF-8 or it supports Big 5 but
>not UTF-8 then this is trouble..........
>
> anyone with some idea on this issue.......
>
> regards,
>
> Sandeep
>
>
>
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