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Mozilla: detecting foreign character sets

Any way to mirror IE?

         

Crescendo

9:52 am on Sep 26, 2002 (gmt 0)



In IE6 you can Auto-Detect foreign character sets such as Japanese on pages that use them, so the resulting text isn't gibberish. But on Mozilla it seems you have to choose one language only. Is there a way to auto-detect the language as in IE?

bathrobe

12:34 pm on Sep 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I have found Mozilla a little annoying that way, especially as I often switch between Chinese (trad), Chinese (simp), Japanese, and English. The best results seem to come with Auto-detect set to (off).

It works with most pages, but has problems with some -- possibly to do with the encoding?

g1smd

8:10 pm on Sep 26, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Yeah, but wouldn't life just be a lot easier if web site coders included Content Language tags in their HTML, either as a Meta Tag for the entire page, or as a regular tag on each section that is in a different language.

(And, don't forget to add the Document Type and Character Set declarations as well, while you are at it).