Posted by David Dorward on 10/27/07 16:49

On Oct 27, 3:51 pm, Gaston Verhulst <gaston.verhu...@pandora.be>
wrote:
> It happens, when I open a HTML-Link to a German site with
> text with special letters as e.g. ä, ö, ü, that I can not see the
> correct letters.

So it is using the wrong character encoding.

> Is in HTLM an option that I can ad to the Link description so I can
> change automatically, in this case, to the Central-European
> (Windows-1250) letterset?

No, the responsibility for specifying the encoding of a document lies
with the provider of the document, not with people who link to it.

http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset

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David Dorward
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