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Re: Why would a website's encoding default to Cyrillic?

  • Subject: Re: Why would a website's encoding default to Cyrillic?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:38:37 +0000
  • Newsgroups: alt.html
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [Nocturnal] on Monday 28 November 2005 07:18 \__

> There is a website I frequent both their forum and main page encoding is
> Cyrillic which is for Russia.  The website is not hosted in Russia either.
> In their HTML all of the encoding is set to Iso-8559-1 which is the USA
> standard.  What could be overriding their iso-8559-1 and encoding it to
> Cyrillic?

Which  browser  are you using? That's an important factor. Also, have  any
symbols  have  been embedded in these pages which are not interpetable  by
Iso-8559-1?  As  you mentioned a forum (thus open content),  has  anything
been entered in Cyrillic? That might explain why Iso-8559-1 is overridden,
supposedly  in order to 'help' you. I don't think a hybrid of encodings is
ever possible, so an encoding fallback is assumed to be preferable.

Roy

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