Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/28/05 19:43

"Nocturnal" <nocturnal@anonymous.com> wrote:

> There is a website I frequent both their forum and main page encoding is
> Cyrillic which is for Russia.

There is no encoding with the name "Cyrillic". There are several encodings
that have the word "Cyrillic" as part of their informal name. Many of them
are suitable for several languages written in Cyrillic letters, not just
Russian, in Russia and elsewhere.

Why don't you specify the URL of the site?

> The website is not hosted in Russia either.

"Either"?

> In their HTML all of the encoding is set to Iso-8559-1

Are you sure? How?

> which is the USA standard.

It isn't. Ask the ANSI if you think otherwise.

> What could be overriding their iso-8559-1 and encoding it to
> Cyrillic?

HTTP headers or your browser.

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