Web browser displaying chinese characters

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Web browser displaying chinese characters

definitely not intended

penstaar

7:37 pm on Apr 7, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hi there,

Some local copies of my website are displaying chinese characters when viewed in IE on Vista on this particular computer.

Header is:

<html><head><title>False Creek</title>
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false">
</head>

There doesn't appear to be a DOCTYPE. Could this be the reason that the chinese characters are displaying?

Thank you.

jdMorgan

8:08 pm on Apr 7, 2009 (gmt 0)

No language was specified in the <html> tag.
No content-type or character set was spcificied.

Try:

 <html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

or similar.

If you are seeing this problem while viewing a page on a remote server, then check the server configuration to be sure that language, content-type (MIME-type), and character-set declarations are all present and correct. If you don't control this, ask the hosting company.

Jim

penstaar

4:58 am on Apr 9, 2009 (gmt 0)

Thanks jd... that totally worked!