Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 05/31/06 21:32

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Ioannis wrote:

> Need someone to check the display of Greek on my webpage. I am using a
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7">

What are you trying to achieve? If you want native Greek, then using
iso-8859-7 is entirely plausible. If you primarily want to do
mathematics, then I wouldn't recommend it.

In any case, you haven't configured your server to set the proper
encoding, so you're relying on a meta http-equiv. (Which reminds me,
I really must rewrite my page on that topic. But I digress)

> tag,

Tag? Inevitably, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ,
Part 5 (SCNR).

> and not UTF-8 characters, so I am unsure if non-Greek Windows
> computers automatically display the Greek ok.

Generally speaking, current browsers will display Greek "OK", yes.

> http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/math/index.html

You're pointlessly using antique markup, IMHO. I see no reason why
your content shouldn't be entirely suitable for modern (strict-ish)
markup, with stylesheet for presentation proposal(s). Even if that
wasn't your question.

> if you can, please tell me if the Greek letters in the cyan quote
> above the animated .gif show up ok and not as gibberish.

It works, but it's not what I'd recommend for the material you are
offering there. In detail,
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/checklist

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