I need some guidance here
I've written this HTML code using the Windows Notebook:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EL">
<html>
<head>
<title>This is a Greek language title -> καρυδάς πληροφορική</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is plain Greek text -> Θα είμαστε σύντομα κοντά σας</p>
</body>
</html>
and then I saved it as "index.html " in a local directory. The first time I
load the page in IE6.0-sp2 it came up with unreadable characters - in the
"Greek" text NOT the Latin characters - it came up with Turkish!!! encoding
so I had to disable this language support!. Ever since I was able to load
the page locally and had no problems.
Then I created the same page using a plain text editor in my Mandrake linux
8.2 PC and saved it in the "htdocs" dir of the Apache 2.0 server that I
installed. This PC is locally connected to other PCs that run on WinXP
Pro-sp2. When I access the web page from a Win PC, IE shows the page in
"Western Europe (ISO)" encoding making the page unreadable unless selecting
"Encoding=Greek (Windows) / (ISO)" through the menu option.
This is happening everytime I reload the page from the server. I tried using
CSS and define "lang" settings but had no results. W3 HTML 4.01 is an
excellent documentation but I feel I little bit lost there in the ISOs and
RFCs and have not enough time to figure out myself.
Whow can I overcome this problem? Is this an IE problem? an Apache server
problem? (the linux PC has NO support for Greek characters) Is this the
right group to ask?
I am quite experienced in Windows internals, also C,Pascal,VB etc. win
programmin and also, a newbbie++ in the linux world. :) and I have to teach
basic HTML page creation and uploading, in a classroom of 16-18yo students.
Thank you
Panagiotis C. Karydas
pk******@otenet.gr
PS. please forgive any bad-english writing...
