From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 08:45:05 CST
on 2004-11-21 05:40 Stefan Persson wrote:
> I think M$ bases their guesses on what to download on the charsets used.
> If e.g. EUC-JP is used, you may be asked to download a Japanese fount,
> even if the page doesn't contain any Japanese characters at all,
I can confirm this--I was working with a draft web site made by a
student assistant, and when I went to view it, IE asked if I wanted to
install a Korean font. Turns out that Dreamweaver on his
Korean-localized system had set the encoding to euc-kr, even though
there was nothing beyond us-ascii.
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Web Coordinator, Cal Poly Pomona +1 909 979 6371 Professor, Biological Sciences +1 909 869 4062
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