Re: A Problem With Diplaying A Perl Generated Romanian Page In IE...

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Hi,

The romanian character set (ISO-8859-16) is very seldom used, because it was
not implemented on very many applications, but ISO-8859-2 is much often used
even some characters are not showing exactly as they should look in
romanian.

The problem is that the browsers see the HTTP header, and use it and they
don't use the <meta> tags defined in the web pages if there is an HTTP
header defined for the same thing.

So you will need to print the Content-Type HTTP header in your applications
to be:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2

Then the special characters will show correctly if they are correctly
defined.

Teddy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farhad Ahani (FarhadA@xxxxx.xxx)" <farhada@xxxxx.xxx>
To: <modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:14 AM
Subject: A Problem With Diplaying A Perl Generated Romanian Page In IE...


Hi Everbody,

We have a client that has a page with romanian characters which IE
doesn't want to display. Serving static romanian pages works fine with
the server. But this one is served dynamically via a perl script.

In IE certain characters are displayed as empty boxes when the file is
served, but if the file is saved and viewed locally it displays fine.
Firefox displays perfectly. The character encoding on this has beeb set
to be the romanian one (ISO-8859-16) in the head section of the html,
( <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-16"> ). For example here is a part of source code of
HTML page which is been served.

<td height="22" colspan="2"><strong>4</strong>. Urmānd clinica, la ce
beneficii v-a&#355;i a&#351;teptat īn urma implement&#462;rii EM ?
<br><em>V&#462; rug&#462;m bifa&#355;i tot ce se aplic&#462;.</em>
</td>

If you want to have a look at the page, here is the url and user/pass,

http://www.eeimplementors.org/index.pl?page=65

Username: test@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Password: apache

If you've got any ideas, I'd appreciate them.

Thanks for your time,
Farhad