Joseph J Jarfas wrote: > Hi Janet and all, > > I believe the problems are only temporary, but don't know how soon > LDS will convert their holdings to Unicode. So you know most browsers > nowadays try to interpret 'strange' characters to Unicode, when in > fact LDS still uses 'Western', i.e. ISO-8859-1. > > You just go - on their web pages - to your browser's character > coding button and select Western. Then all the characters will display > correctly (in Internet Explorer: View > Encoding > Western European). > > Joe > Equinunk, PA - USA > jjarfas@ezaccess.net Hm, Janet, looks like I talked before I tried! :-) But I use Netscape and with that it works as described. IE indeed shows strange characters and no selection will bring in the correct code - so far. I don't think it's LDS' fault. Joe Equinunk, PA - USA jjarfas@ezaccess.net --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by ezaccess.net]

Joe, I tried this too with no effect. In fact I tried all of the encoding choices, and none of them made any difference. It is really irritating. If it is not the fault of LDS, who do think might be contacted about the problem? Janet -----Original Message----- From: Joseph J Jarfas [mailto:jjarfas@ezaccess.net] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:54 PM To: Joseph J Jarfas Cc: Janet Kozlay; HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Vowels in LDS Place Searches Joseph J Jarfas wrote: > Hi Janet and all, > > I believe the problems are only temporary, but don't know how soon > LDS will convert their holdings to Unicode. So you know most browsers > nowadays try to interpret 'strange' characters to Unicode, when in > fact LDS still uses 'Western', i.e. ISO-8859-1. > > You just go - on their web pages - to your browser's character > coding button and select Western. Then all the characters will display > correctly (in Internet Explorer: View > Encoding > Western European). > > Joe > Equinunk, PA - USA > jjarfas@ezaccess.net Hm, Janet, looks like I talked before I tried! :-) But I use Netscape and with that it works as described. IE indeed shows strange characters and no selection will bring in the correct code - so far. I don't think it's LDS' fault. Joe Equinunk, PA - USA jjarfas@ezaccess.net --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by ezaccess.net]