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From: "Michael" <mick@michael.lai.name>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] big5 charset not displayed automatically
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> The reason you are getting the differently styled english font is it is
> actually the big5 font in english.

Even if it is an english only page with the charset set to iso-8859-1?

> I suggest you setup some directives to control the language.
>
> You can also do it on a per directory bases
>
> <Directory /chinese/>
> <Files *.html>
> DefaultLanguage big5
> </Files>
> </Directory>
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Ryan Snow

Thanks, I will give that a try although it seems like a rather odd way of
controlling the encoding.  What is the use of the meta tag then?

Michael.

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