Page encoding - Eastern European characterset

What characterset is supported on different platforms?

[reddogco]

I am looking for a characterset to specify in a metatag, so that a page produced in Polish can be viewed automatically (no need to change encoding settings in the browser) on Windows, Mac and Unix browsers.

So far I have tried the following:
charset=windows-1250 : only works on Windows
charset=iso-8859-2 : does not work on Windows or Mac

Alternatively, if anyone could point me to a resource where I can find out more, would be fine as well.

Thanks,
Marc

[heini]

Hi Marc - welcome to WebmasterWorld

The encoding for European and Asian languages is a reoccurring question. And the answer is...unicode.
But for the moment there is no alternative to what you already found. If you want ot cater to all browsers, windows, mac and *nix you need to offer both, the charset=windows-1250 and charset=iso-8859-2

[reddogco]

Thanks Heini,

But ISO-8859-2 does not seem to work in Windows nor in Mac. Could there be a problem that the web server is not properly configured?

M.