Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (and later versions) running on Windows 95 (and later versions) with codepage 1250 correctly interprets WWW pages encoded in ISO Latin 2. Although this seems to be a violation of HTTP specification [1], this is probably the best solution Microsoft could provide after deciding for codepage 1250. Codepage 1250 shipped with Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 in Central Europe contains all the neccessary characters ISO 8859-2 (aka Latin 2) requires (plus several additional ones), but they are unfortunately permuted.
The WWW server needs to be correctly configured in order to precede the pages encoded in ISO 8859-2 with the correct MIME header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2
Systems tested:
I would be very happy if you can either confirm (or deny) these observations with your local version of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer. Please mail me to web-admin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si.
Created 1996-10-07 by
P. Peterlin
Last revision $Date: 2001/01/30 11:39:44 $ ($Author: gnusl $)
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