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Re: CXS page (fy: (Mis)Naming a Language)

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Saturday, October 30, 2004, 17:11
* Jan van Steenbergen said on 2004-10-30 15:06:34 +0200
> --- Henrik Theiling skrzypszy: > > > If you like, take a look at my web-page with a comparison of IPA, > > X-Sampa and CXS: > > > > http://www.theiling.de/ipa/ > > And excellent page! However, if I may make one small suggestion: add > a font tag with a few Unicode fonts. Like: <FONT FACE="Code2000, > Thryomanes, Gentium, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial Unicode, etc.">
Always incorrect these days :) correct, oh, some seven years ago.
> Because frankly, I only got it working after copying the source and > adding such a tag myself.
The correct way is to tell what encoding it is, is to put it in the header/preamble. HTML 3.2 defaults to iso-8859-1. It is set explicitly in the header in this case... <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf8"> But AFAIK 3.2 couldn't care less. For 4.0, the default is unicode, so I suggest simply replacing the line <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> with <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> (with no linebreak) I'd also suggest running the page through for instance tidy <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/> as the code is rather ugly to read by hand and it'll collect all the style-information in one handy block. t., who used to know way too much about these things. GO bad memory!

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