As with version 2.0, Netscape Navigator automatically switches to Latin 2 fonts, once you have installed the Latin 2 fonts for X11, and if the document retrieved was tagged with the correct MIME header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2
If you have more than one Latin 2 font available, you can choose which one you want to use:
General Preferencies from the
Options pull-down menu, then Fonts
folder. In the "For the encodeing..." select Central
European (Latin 2). Clicking on the selector bar for
either the proportional or the fixed font will bring you all
the available fonts. A good choice might be "Times" for the
proportional font and "Courier" for the fixed one, however -
de gustibus non est disputandum.
Since there are still numerous servers around which send the data with incorrect header data, you may want to switch to ISO Latin 2 character set manually. Again, the procedure can be accomplished from within Netscape Navigator:
Language Encoding from the
Options pull-down menu, then Central
European (Latin 2)
Do not forget to switch back to Latin 1 afterwards, or you will get all the Latin 1 encoded pages displayed wrong! BTW, the ability to manually select the character encoding is arguably a departure from the HTTP specification, which states:
... However, the definition associated with a MIME character set name must fully specify the mapping to be performed from octets to characters. In particular, use of external profiling information to determine the exact mapping is not permitted.
You might also want to check the section Language Support on the Netscape Communications Corporation home server.
You might have expected Mozilla remembers which character set was used when the page was read in, and accordingly output correct PostScript code. It doesn't - every page Mozilla outputs in PostScript uses ISO 8859-1 encoding vector. You may want to use Juliusz Chroboczek's ogonkify package to remedy it.
Once you have successfully installed it, press the `Print' button
(or use option Print from File menu) to get
to the printing menu. In the `Print Command' window we need to insert
the `ogonkify' filter before the printing command:
The command lpr assumes Berkeley-derived print
spooling systems; on AT&T and derivatives you need to substitute it
with lp.
(Andrej Gogala, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana,
<andrej@e5.ijs.si>)
Netscape Navigator version 3.0 running on Microsoft Windows with Microsoft CP1250 installed correctly shows all WWW pages using ISO 8859-2 character set, provided they are labelled with the proper MIME header (see above). So far, this observation has been confirmed with:
It does not work correctly with:
Also Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 correctly shows WWW pages using ISO 8859-2 character set.
Created 1996-01-21 by
P. Peterlin
Last update $Date: 2001/02/20 20:05:37 $ ($Author: gnusl $)
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