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4 total messages Started by M. Roy Harris Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:00

#2072

Author: M. Roy Harris
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:00

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Would someone using a browser other than Netscape Navigator 4.1 take a
look at

http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference

and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown? On
the Netscape Navigator 4.1 display, they seem to appear as the HTML
encoding itself instead of the desired accented character.

Thanks,
Roy


M. Roy Harris, Professor Emeritus   | e-mail  mrh3b@Virginia.EDU
French Language & Literature        | tel     (804) 924-7158
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Charlottesville VA 22903

Re: Browser test request/TAN

#2076

Author: Jukka-Pekka Takala
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:00

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Roy,

Took a look and their HTML encoding of accented chars seems faulty (or
at least non-standard): they lack the final semicolon:

&eacute -> &eacute;

j-p takala

>
> Would someone using a browser other than Netscape Navigator 4.1 take a
> look at
>
> http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference
>
> and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown? On
> the Netscape Navigator 4.1 display, they seem to appear as the HTML
> encoding itself instead of the desired accented character.
>
> Thanks,
> Roy
>
>
> M. Roy Harris, Professor Emeritus   | e-mail  mrh3b@Virginia.EDU
> French Language & Literature        | tel     (804) 924-7158
> University of Virginia, 302 Cabell  | fax     (804) 924-7157
> Charlottesville VA 22903
>

Re: Browser test request/TAN

#2077

Author: Paul F. Schaffner
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:00

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> http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference
>
> and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown?

Roy, it looks as though most or all of the trailing semicolons have
been left off the character entities. Netscape is able to interpret
correctly only the ones that happen to terminate in a space; Internet
Explorer seems able to interpret them all correctly--it displays true
accents. The coding itself is wrong: but IE seems a little more
robust at coping with it. This on only a very cursory look.

Paul
pfs@umich.edu

Re: Browser test request/TAN

#2078

Author: Kenneth Salzberg
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:00

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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, M. Roy Harris wrote:

> Would someone using a browser other than Netscape Navigator 4.1 take a
> look at
>
> http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference
>
> and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown? On
> the Netscape Navigator 4.1 display, they seem to appear as the HTML
> encoding itself instead of the desired accented character.

In my netscape 3.1 Gold browser, they show up correctly.

-Ken

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