See also http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html to set the 'charset' parameter in the Content-Type header of HTTP. Browser will give priority to this encoding. Francosi
> -----Original Message----- > From: James Kass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:55 PM > To: Unicode List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Programmatic control of character set > > > Thomas Tomosky wrote, > > > > > On our web site, can I force the visitor's character set to > be UTF-8? > > Unless their > > browser is set up properly, they can't view the site > properly. As an > > alternative to > > providing instructions to them on how to do this, I would like to > > programmatically set > > the character encoding to UTF-8. How can I do that? > > > > The character set should be declared in the <head> section of > the HTML, > this should force the browser to load the page in the desired > character > set automatically. > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> > > For more info about character sets and valid HTML, please see: > http://validator.w3.org/ > > Best regards, > > James Kass. > > > >
