1. [offtopic] code pages again
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net
Jun 19, 2001
Hey all, i ran into a interesting item on a webpage, i'll paste it here:
transforma%/'%/#o
The browser(IE) displays it in different font,
the %/' = a 'c' with a subscript
the %/# = an 'a' with a tilde over it
How are these font changes done? How is the page being specified, and how is
this
not an <html tag> ? Can i tell what code page is being used, or if IE is using
the
correct one? I am clueless on this.
Kat
2. Re: [offtopic] code pages again
Hello Kat,
> Hey all, i ran into a interesting item on a webpage,
> i'll paste it here:
>
> transforma%/'%/#o
>
> The browser(IE) displays it in different font,
> the %/' = a 'c' with a subscript
> the %/# = an 'a' with a tilde over it
>
> How are these font changes done?
> How is the page being specified,
> and how is this not an <html tag>?
> Can i tell what code page is being
> used, or if IE is using the
> correct one? I am clueless on this.
>
> Kat
Kat, this is not fonts or code pages
question. %/'%/#o symbols are stable in
any modern and almost all the old code pages,
that I know, and in practice, there is no usual
*recoding* procedures to change them in the text,
or usual fonts with another symbols instead
of these ones.
I see these symbols on my IE without any
transformations on all available code pages,
as expected, both in .txt and .htm formats.
But it is a question of URL-*encoding*
and *decoding* for CGI usage.
I don't know URL/CGI stuff well enough.
But for these CGI manipulations, % is a
special command symbol to start the
decoding of an URL string.
Maybe, this my incomplete answer
may be useful too, at least to change
subject of this message.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
