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>OK, now I understand the situation better. This >correspondence has made me aware of how ubiquitous >Unicode became and how it made internationalization >easy (as far as I am concerned). And I must say, >Microsoft had a great deal in this. When the >newspapers here in Turkey began their online editions, >around 1995, it was very difficult to get the >characters right. Everyone had their own solution, >which did not work for many people. So, the newspapers >had to publish their pages in ASCII (or, to be >correct, ANSI) characters, by converting >Turkish-specific characters to their closest >equivalent. But today, all Turkish websites use >ISO-8859-9 (Turkish) character encoding. And since IE >5.5, I can read Arabic websites without difficulty, >even under Win98. > >Finally, let me add that Internet Explorer is a very >handy program to change the encoding of a web page. I >have discovered this after searching for many hours >for such a program. So now, I can easily change the >encoding of a web page from UTF-8 to a Windows Ansi >set by saving it with the desired encoding in IE! > >>Actually, HTML pages are nothing but plain text files >>(<b>".txt"</B>) with a 'fake' extension (.htm). For >>backward compatibility, the 'source code' of an HTML >>page is usually written in ANSI (Western), and a >>header in that code tells the browser which encoding >>scheme it must use to display the page.

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