From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T10:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: A question for people with English OS

Peter Hickman wrote:
> I use OS X with all the fonts installed. The biggest problem I have is
> that many sites do not set the encoding for the pages. I guess someone
> using a Japanese computer to visit a Japanese web site would not find
> this a problem as the default will be to assume that the site is
> Japanese but for me it can be pretty much impossible to view some sites
> unless I am prepared to try every possible encoding (and then find out
> that they are really written in Chinese or Korean).

> I understand that IE can make a pretty good guess at the encoding if it
> does not look like Latin but Safari does not seem to hack it.

Browsers aren't supposed to guess. That IE guesses simply means that IE 
has yet another bug, born out of Microsoft's typical arrogant refusal to 
follow standards.

Servers that do not identify the correct encoding are bugged, too. Bitch 
to the webmasters until they fix it. Their sites are broken, and should 
be fixed. Period.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. 
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because 
it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it is 
violent, and not because it is unjust."
   -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"
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