Omniweb 3 and meta tags

[David Herren]

Apparently Omniweb is ignoring meta tags in the Header, in particular those which tell the browser which character set is being used in the page. For example, at:

http://www.cet.middlebury.edu/Smitheram/ZhouXuan/seasons.html


the header includes the meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Both netscape and IE correctly parse that tag and switch the encoding for the display of the page (using any available Japanese/Chinese or Unicode fonts (depending upon the platform).

In Omniweb, not only does it ignore the tag, but switching the encoding is several steps--the user would have to know to open the User Preferences, and then to click HTML Display, and then know which character encoding to select. At the very least, I
would recommend that the encoding switch be available directly as a menu selection rather than having to go through a dialog, but of course the best would be for Omniweb to understand the meta tags. (Chinese and Japanese users routinely have to switch
among various encodings when browsing so direct menu access would be nice).

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