additions...

...typographical fix...

broken page…

This page is definitely broken. It may look alright to you, but someone has broken it beyond repair. Now it is just another imperfect web page with broken text.

You see: something is wrong regarding the text-encoding, so it won't look right if my visitor doesn't get it right at his/her end. I wonder if my visitors are aware of that.

No need to fix something that ain't broken, and if it is broken then that's someone else's fault. Everything works just perfect here, so it must be something wrong somewhere else.

Guess I'm at fault here, because I'm reading this page just fine with my browser's text-encoding set to "Thai". Don't think I'm supposed to do that. It looks fine in "Chinese" also by the way...

typographical error…

I have no idea about what's typographically correct or not, but if I can't read the text then there's definitely something broken. Oh, well, maybe it's just another foreign language.

It's a lot worse when it is my own language, and I still can't read it because it's broken. Maybe I've forgotten how to read my own language?

My Norwegian "æ", "ø" and "å" seems to survive well, despite my browser's text-encoding being set to "Thai" (ISO-8839-11). Think they are supposed to come out as "iso-8839-11 code:230", "iso-8839-11 code:248" and "iso-8839-11 code:229", but I didn't like to see my Norwegian characters displayed that way. Too hard for me to read.

Ok, so this typographical "error" can be fixed in most cases—at least in most modern browsers that can interpret entities. Just a question of getting these entities right.

Of course; it is also a question about not having too many characters that needs convertion into entities. Norwegian isn't too hard in that respect. English should be no problem at all if it's done right.

confusion…

Well, yes, I'm still slightly confused. Not about how this minor text-encoding can be fixed, but why it isn't fixed more often since there are usually only a few characters that needs fixing in a page written in a Western language. Guess some pieces are still missing in this puzzle — or maybe I lost the entire puzzle?

sincerely  georg; sign

Hageland 20.apr.2004
last rev: 29.apr.2005


additions...

quotes:

Everything works just perfect here, so it must be something wrong somewhere else.
— (web designer using Internet Explorer)

typical examples:

example
should read:
'it's hot'

example
should read:
'something — change'

Note:
The difference between the examples above and what's written underneath is the use of entities. Use proper entities, or don't use entities. There's really nothing in between that'll work.
— Georg

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