Re: Character encoding in DDK's HTML documents

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This newsgroup is really not the right place to go in order to get something
like this changed. If you take the time to look at the bottom of each help
in the DDK, there is a link "Send feedback on this topic." -- use that
instead of posting on an unmanaged public newsgroups if you are looking to
get a doc bug fixed.

"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%238x8SxAiFHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The bytes which were put in those HTML pages by authors of documents in
> the
> --> DDK <--
> are far from language agnostic and are not 7-bit ASCII.
> Now if the authors of those documents in the DDK will insert the headers
> necessary to specify ASCII then at least part of the problem should be
> resolved, plus they ought to get error messages about the parts of their
> documents which aren't ASCII and then they can fix their documents.
>
> Any company which does I18N (such as the company that makes Internet
> Explorer) knows how to do this. I ask that company to teach this to the
> authors of DDK documents.
>
> "Pavel A." <pavel_a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:B9A0E16D-247A-464A-BBE5-344D6AB3BC9B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Norman,
>>
>> You may get much better responces in win32.programmer.international
>> or platformsdk.* newsgroups.
>>
>> We kernel developers are pretty much language agnostic, as you probably
>> already noticed. The favorite code page is 7-bit ascii.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --PA
>>
>> "Norman Diamond" wrote:
>>> The maker of Internet Explorer, and most likely the publisher of
>>> "Developing
>>> International Software, Second Edition" by Dr. International, are aware
>>> that
>>> the default character encoding used in displaying an HTML page comes
>>> from
>>> the defaults programmed into Windows operating systems, except when
>>> users
>>> change them. Most users do not change the defaults. Even developers do
>>> not
>>> ordinarily change the defaults on computers that they use daily in
>>> normal
>>> work.
>>>
>>> When the author of an HTML page doesn't specify a character encoding,
>>> the
>>> author accepts Internet Explorer's default. An example result is shown
>>> at:
>>> http://www.geocities.jp/hitotsubishi/DDKdoc.png
>>> (This URL is case-sensitive and includes three uppercase letters.)
>>>
>>> Would it be possible for the maker of Internet Explorer to inform
>>> authors of
>>> the DDK's HTML documents about the advisability of specifying character
>>> encodings to match the text they intended to write, overriding the
>>> defaults?
>>>
>>>
>


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