User Guide

76 Getting Results with Novell Web Services
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
103-000133-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Assigning a Character Set
The character set of a document is determined in part by the language it is
written in. For most Web browsers, you can override the default character set
setting for a document, a set of documents, or a directory by selecting a
resource and entering a character set for that resource.
Most Web browsers can use the MIME type charset parameter in HTTP to
change its character set. If the server includes this parameter in its response,
the Web browser changes its character set accordingly. The following are
some character set examples:
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-2022-jp
The charset names recognized by Netscape Communicator are specified in
RFC 1700 (except for the names that begin with x-). These charset names
include the following:
Additionally, the following aliases are recognized for us-ascii:
The following aliases are recognized for iso_8859-1:
us-ascii iso-8859-1
iso-2022-jp x-sjis
x-euc-jp x-mac-roman
ansi_x3.4-1968 iso-ir-6
ansi_x3.4-1986 iso_646.irv:1991
ascii iso646-us
us ibm367
cp367
latin1 iso_8859-1
iso_8859-1:1987 iso-ir-100
ibm819 cp819