Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: mcilvanney.cogsci.ed.ac.uk: ht set sender to ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk using -f To: David Starks-Browning Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, david.prather@telelogic.com, Andrew Markebo Subject: Re: 1.3.2: bash: Swedish characters not displayed (beeps instead) References: <5289-Wed04Jul2001100950+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <9018-Fri06Jul2001015117+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: 06 Jul 2001 10:21:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: David Starks-Browning's message of "Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:51:17 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii David Starks-Browning writes: > I cheated and put 8-bit characters directly in the HTML. Is this a > problem? My copy of Netscape doesn't seem to mind. Could people have > a look and report if it's a problem with their browser? (No need to > respond if it works fine.) Which encoding of 8-bit characters? It's at least bad citizenship to use other than ASCII without signalling the encoding. Please add a character encoding declaration to the HTML header, as follows: . . . . . . and then many more browsers on many more platforms will see the right thing. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/