> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin Burges
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:55 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Subject:  Re:  RE:  Re:  Re[2]:  Re:  RE:
>  Re:    is being displayed as Á
>
>
> JR> Interesting. Could you please post an example for an HTML
> file (that you
> JR> think is OK) which will not be displayd correctly by IE (under some
>
> I can't attach to the list, but I've sent this to you personally with
> the attachment. Here is exactly what the problem was:
>
> I set the endoding (in a Content-Type meta and xsl:output) as UTF-8.

Actually, there's a bug. The META tag should be a child of HEAD. But this
doesn't seem to matter.

> When viewed in IE, it displayed OK at first. I then removed the
> encoding Auto Detect, turned Auto Detect on again, and it switches to
> "Vietnamese (Windows)" which displays the "Á" character again.

Same here, expect for "Vietnamese" (it switches to "West Europe (Windows)").

> >From what I have seen of IE, when it first loads a document the
> encoding Auto Detect seems to take the encoding from the Content-Type
> meta. If you take off Auto Detact and put it on again, it seems to try
> to guess the encoding rather than taking it from the meta tag.

I agree. But then, the user can just refresh, and everything should be OK
again, right?

> I am guessing this because if I create iso-8859-1 from XSLT, but label
> it UTF-8, IE first displays it as UTF-8. If you take off Auto Detect
> and put it on again, IE displays it as "Western European (Windows)"
>
> I create iso-8859-1 from XSLT, and label it correctly as iso-8859-1,
> IE first displays it as "Western European (ISO)". If you take off Auto
> Detect and put it on again, IE displays it as "Western European
> (Windows)"
>
>
> The Vietnamese thing really confuses me though...


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