[chemweb] Dear to chemists hearts: Greek characters on the Web

[Rzepa, Henry]

>Hi,
>
>I don't know if that is going to be helpful but...
>* By default I see an I with a caret and a square for the first symbol
>* If I save your file in local and I open it, I see betas for both characters
>* Your file seems to be served as encoded in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) according to the page info information in Mozilla
>
>It looks like that the web server may override your file encoding...
>http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#declaring
>http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset


You   correct Jordi.   But see

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Sep/0176.html

which says that the server should really  NOT do this! 

At any rate,  I have switched a setting off on the server
#AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

and now http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/greek.html  does indeed show
a beta for the  utf-encoded version.

I strongly suspect however server behaviour will differ wildly.  Apache (2.0.49 
for above) can be configured, but my experience in asking server administrators
to do these things can be very uncertain.

I would hazard a guess that dealing with eg greek characters is likely to be
a problem for the foreseeable future.

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Henry Rzepa. 
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