Re: Unicode and Encoding Problems in Browsers

[Shlomi Tal]

I'd like to mention that this problem which Muhammad Asif brings forth is an extant one in my circle of work. I work as PC technician, and one complaint I often get in tech support calls is that the user is unable to type Hebrew in the Search box in the MSN Israel website (msn.co.il) under Windows XP. At the first time, I told the user to set the "Language for Non-Unicode Programs" (known as the System Locale in Windows 2000, which sets the emulated ANSI codepage), but it didn't help: the user still complained of seeing boxes instead of proper Hebrew letters. The encoding of MSN.co.il is "Hebrew (Windows)".

It doesn't happen under all machines. Mine at home runs XP too, but I don't have that problem. I suspect it's not related to Unicode/encodings stuff at all. The fact that it appears only under XP (and not 2000 or 98, for instance) leads me to believe it may have something to do with the Java VM (which is by default lacking in XP and updates browser components when installed).

I hope that is of some enlightenment.

ST

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