You can configure any file or directory with a MIME charset that will be
included in the Content-Type HTTP header. Configuring a directory applies
recursively to its contents.
With the server administration software, this is really easy to set-up. In
the first page of the configuration "menu", the last link is the one you
need to click. From there, it's fairly intuitive.
There are 2 cases when Netsite 1.1 will send the charset parameter:
(1) if the client is Netscape Navigator 1.1 or higher
(2) the client sent the "Accept-Charset: " accept header.
We restrict it to the above, so we won't break existing non-Navigator 1.1
browsers that cannot grok charset.
This should be very convenient for web sites that have whole sub-trees in a
non-Latin1 character encoding. It's a bit cumbersome for a content
developer without server administration privileges,
but that needs to be solved by HTML tags...
BTW, Netsite 1.1 is available for a free test drive:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/server_central/index.html
Regards,
Bob
At 11:48 AM 6/7/95, Martin J Duerst wrote:
>My request below is related to this list as I am working towards
>having something workable for the i18n document. But please
>reply privately to not bother the list more than necessary.
>
>I am looking for a server, implementation or installation,
>however experimental it might be, that is capable of correctly
>returning the "charset:" parameter field in the MIME Content-Type
>line as specified in the HTTP protocol specifications.
>
>I have checked out the resources I know, without any result.
>Gavin Nicol told me that there might have been somebody
>who did an experimental implementation, but he didn't
>remember anymore who it could have been.
>Any related information, including pointers to information
>sources I might not be aware of, more detailed rumors,
>hints for how to do it in case I have to do it myself, and
>of course volunteers that would like to hepl with it, are
>greatly wellcome.
>
>Many thanks in advance and kind regards, Martin.
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