Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 11/28/05 10:38

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> There is a website I frequent both their forum and main page encoding is
> Cyrillic which is for Russia. The website is not hosted in Russia either.
> In their HTML all of the encoding is set to Iso-8559-1 which is the USA
> standard. What could be overriding their iso-8559-1 and encoding it to
> Cyrillic?

Which browser are you using? That's an important factor. Also, have any
symbols have been embedded in these pages which are not interpetable by
Iso-8559-1? As you mentioned a forum (thus open content), has anything
been entered in Cyrillic? That might explain why Iso-8559-1 is overridden,
supposedly in order to 'help' you. I don't think a hybrid of encodings is
ever possible, so an encoding fallback is assumed to be preferable.

Roy

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