RE: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com

From: Lori Brownell (loribr@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 1997 - 15:11:40 EST


I will inform the owners of www.microsoft.com.

Thanks - Lori

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Misha Wolf [SMTP:misha.wolf@reuters.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 1997 11:39 AM
> To: Multiple Recipients of
> Subject: Serious bug on www.microsoft.com
>
> If anyone from Microsoft is listening, please note that ...
>
> My colleague, Charles Wicksteed, has spotted a serious problem at
> <www.microsoft.com>. Many pages, including the page <www.microsoft.com>,
> contain an illegal charset name. Note that I am not referring to page
> <www.microsoft.com/ie40.asp>, which contains a legal charset name.
>
> The illegal name is "ISO8859-1". The IANA charset register does not
> contain such an alias for "ISO-8859-1" and many browsers do not recognise
> the string "ISO8859-1".
>
> I am glad to see that Front Pad inserts the correct charset name.
>
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