[Fwd: Greek in Konqueror 3.1/kde 3.1]

[Yannis Kotsinos]

On Monday 03 February 2003 02:40, Nikos Charonitakis forwarded the following:

>> Chris Hart <chriscorp at web.de> wrote
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just installed (with some problems) KDE 3.1 on SuSE 8.1, and Konqueror 
>> displays correctly www.enet.gr but not ta-nea.dolnet.gr . I can read 
>> ta-nea.dolnet.gr correctly in Mozilla. Any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Chris

The splash - index page of the "ta-nea.dolnet.gr" website consists of 3 frames 
and uses the correct meta-header to notify the browser of the correct 
encoding, as seen from it's source file:

  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7">

However, the individual frames have this meta-header commented out. You can 
check this out yourself by right clicking on them and viewing the frame 
source. ie.: this one is from the left frame (notice the comment tag):

<!-- META (...snip... ) charset=iso-8859-7" -->

I just tested it with Konqueror using the following three default encodings 
(Settings->Configure Konqueror->Fonts->Default Encoding)

-  ISO-8859-7: All correctly displayed, as expected.
-  ISO-8859-1: All garbled.
-  Use Language Encoding: All correctly displayed.

This leads me to believe that mozilla by default probably forces the 
container's specified encoding on the contained frames if it's omitted, while 
Konqueror on the other hand assumes your default charset for each contained 
frame, which in this case is not the greek charset (except when the default 
encoding is set to option 3 from above which seems to emulate mozilla's 
behaviour).

On a sidenote though, every standard conforming browser is expected to switch 
to the explicitly declared in each page's META header charset, so bottomline: 
They are to blame for ommiting it in every frame :)

This is purely - as you can see - an HTML approach and I am assuming that 
greek support on your system is properly configured (which seems to be the 
case, as, you mentioned that the other website shows up correctly).

HTH.

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