What is charset=gb2312?

[Mohamed_E]

Checking some referrers I went to an MIT bulletin board and found gibberish on my screen. Looking at the source I found:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">

Anything I can do to make it readable on IE 5.5?

Further experimentation showed that NN6.2 could render much of it in English, but there were lots of question marks, and a message from NN asking me, as I recall, to install some Chinese fonts.

Thanks!

[edited by: Mohamed_E at 6:01 pm (utc) on June 30, 2003]

[moltar]

A simple search in Google shows that it's Chinese ;)

[google.com...]

[goa.cet.middlebury.edu...]

To make it readable in IE, you should enable "Install on Demand (Internet Explorer)" in Intenet Options and visit one of the pages with that charset and IE automatically should ask you to install that charset.

[edited by: moltar at 5:58 pm (utc) on June 30, 2003]

[universalis]

iso-gb2312 (IIRC) is simplified Chinese. To read it, you will need to install some Chinese fonts on your machine.

edit: not fast enough!

[Mohamed_E]

> To read it, you will need to install some Chinese fonts on your machine.

I might also need to take some Chinese lessons :)

[g1smd]

GB is the abbreviation of the English for the Chinese word for "national Standard".