Something has changed on the HomePages website in the last few weeks. When web pages did not include a meta field that specified a character encoding, the web server did not include one in its headers and my pages displayed with my browser's default set which is Western-ISO-8859-1. But recently, the website HomePages (but not FreePages) has been specifying Unicode-UTF-8 in its header (even if the meta field specifies something else). Pages displayed using this code cannot handle directly entered accented French characters like àáèé ... For viewers to see the page how it was meant to be, they must manually switch the character encoding back to Western-ISO-8859-1. But this only works for the page I am viewing and the setting does not stick if I look at other similar pages even on the same server. I hope that this was done inadvertently and that it can be corrected. Thanks. Jacques PS. I am looking at header contents using Live HTTP Headers - a plugin to Firefox -- Jacques L'Heureux, Columbia, Maryland Personal website: http://Jacques.happyOnes.com/ Family website: http://www.happyOnes.com/ Genealogy website: http://Genealogy.happyOnes.com/ Franco-American website: http://www.FrancoAmericanConnection.com/ ColumbiaMD website: http://www.ColumbiaMD.org/ Columbia Networking Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColumbiaMD/ --

At 12:45 PM 4/6/2007, you wrote: >Something has changed on the HomePages website in the last few weeks. >When web pages did not include a meta field that specified a character >encoding, the web server did not include one in its headers and my pages >displayed with my browser's default set which is Western-ISO-8859-1. ============= From Help Desk - What fast service. The change occurred during a recent upgrade to the Homepages server. Randy has reset to ISO-8859-1. pat