Sunday, 16 December 2012

Re: Unicode on local pages

On 16 Dec 2012 John Rickman Iyonix <rickman@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> Brian Howlett wrote

>> On 16 Dec, Gavin Wraith wrote:

>>> With NetSurf #739. If I browse
>>> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.
>>> 0173%3Atext%3DSym. it displays OK. If I save or do a full save of the
>>> page, and then browse the resulting local page the Greek text displays
>>> as garbage. Why is there a difference?

>> All I get from that page after the header is "We're sorry, but we were
>> unable to find a document matching your query."
>> Iyonix, RISC OS 5.18 and NS #743.

> Brian - the link is split over two lines in the Messenger mail editor.
> I copied it out to StrongED and clicked on it as one line ok.

Only if you include the full stop at the end of that URL. I originally
got the "We're sorry..." message, as I assumed that a URL didn't
usually have a full stop at the end of it!

With best wishes,

Peter.

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Peter Young (zfc Ta) and family
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