Editing in html

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

You don't have to be so pessimistic about using non-ASCII characters
in your homepages. Russian readers have Russian fonts, Polish Polish fonts...
I am sure very few Americans will be frustrated by clicking a WEB page
intended for Russian speakers.

Yes, mixing different fonts/encoding within a single WEB page is
so far impossible. However, I would have thought that was not the
original poster's intention.

Incidentally, although USSR ratified and made ISO8859-5 her national
standard years ago, the common practice is that the older standard ---
KOI8 -- is the de facto standard in Russia, while Microsoft's proprietary
encoding (codepage 1251) is increasingly used there.

I remember using a GOST database in a Russian library. The database
said ISO8859-5 was the law, but the database was in Microsoft's encoding!!
Then I was curious enough to ask a librarian whether that database would be
punished or not.

FYI,
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=koi8-r">

does not always work, but is worth saying so.


Cheers,
Tsuji