Posted by J.O. Aho on 10/27/07 16:50

Gaston Verhulst wrote:
> my HTML-Link in my Homepage looks like
>
> <A HREF="http://www.wein-plus.de/wdb/index.php3" target="_blank">Here
> you can see the WineDataBase</A>
>
> Now please my question:
> 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?

There ain't any way to to tell the browser to change charset in a link,
this is done with a meta tag on the page which is loaded

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

This is from the page you had problems with, there is built in smartness
in todays browsers, which looks for UTF-8 characters, if a such is
found, the meta tag is ignored. The pages in question has some UTF-8
characters mixed with the iso-8859-1, which makes the browser to display
it as UTF-8, the best thing you can do, is to contact the webmaster or
the author of the page, to fix the page.


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//Aho

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