Bill Jonas on Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:10:11 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] ASCII encoding question...


On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:53:15AM -0400, William Shank wrote:
> actually, this was first noticed on windows machines running ie5.5+. testing
> it with ie5.5, ns4+ (win & linux) and koqy on the staging machines showed
> correct characters. same browsers on the hosting machine showed ? on all
> platforms. weird, huh?

Exceedingly.

When you say "browsers on the hosting machine", are they accessing the
file via http://localhost/foo.html or via file:///documentroot/foo.html ?
If it's the latter, it could be that the web server is translating the
extended codes for you, on the fly.

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