Russian on netscape

[Kjetil Ra Hauge]

>This site seems to use Windows-1251, as most sites I've run across do.

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>Jeffrey S. Eagen

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>At 03:45 PM 1/20/99 -0500, Emily Tall wrote:
>>Occasionally I find a site that doesn't come up Russian, i.e. www.mn.ru

The site offers a choice of Mac, Win-1251, DOS, KOI-8, and transliteration,
but the main problem seems to be that the encoding is not declared in the
source code for the pages. This would have forced your browser to display
the page in the appropriate encoding. Instead you now have to first click
on the button of your choice on the page, and then select the corresponding
encoding from the menu in Netscape ("View">"Character Set" in 4.5, but they
seem to be making a point of renaming this option in every new version).

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