[YTang0648]

In a message dated 11/4/2003 2:03:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This styled message contained (thanks to Microsoft) this line in the head: >  <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; > charset=utf-8"> So far as I can tell, this is gibberish and ought to be >  <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> My browser seems to agree with me, but I await correction. JD According to the HTML standard (see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4 ) the right way to specify the charset in html is to use the http-equiv attribute in META tag with a value "Content-Type" and put the charset value after the "text/html; charset=" in the value of the content attribute. The HTML specification does not specify the order between http-equiv and content attribute nither does it prohibit other attribute (such as charset=UTF-8 ) to be place. A good browser implementation will simply look at the http-equiv and the content and ignore the charset attribute of the <meta tag. The charset= should have no bad effect unless it specify a charset which is differ than the one in the content attribute.   I believe currently Mozilla / Netscape 7 handle that correctly. I don't think Netscape 4.x and below handle that part correctly if my memory is right about the code that I reviewed 7.5 years ago when we were working on Netscape 2.0 development. We have a bug about http-equiv and content ordering issue (if page place the content attribute before the http-equiv attribute) in the early stage of Mozilla developement. But either I or Shanjian Li fixed that for at least several years already. Not sure about IE.   ================================== Frank Yung-Fong Tang System Architect, I�t�rn�ti�n�l D�v�l�pme�t, AOL Int�r��t�v� S�rvi�es AIM:yungfongta mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:650-937-2913 Yahoo! Msg: frankyungfongtan John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Does your software display Thai language text correctly for Thailand users? -> Basic Conceptof Thai Language linked from Frank Tang's I�t�rn�ti�n�liz�ti�n Secrets Want to translate your English text to something Thailand users can understand ? -> Try English-to-Thai machine translation at http://c3po.links.nectec.or.th/parsit/