This
release now provides support for Multi-Language International
character sets. The character set (encoding) can be
specified with the parameter, "charset"
In
the applet form the following should be added between
the <applet> and </applet> tags.
<param
name="charset" value="[encoding name]">
If
this parameter is not present then a default value
of "8859_1" will be used, which represents
Latin Alphabet No.1 (the default for Western English
browsers).
Here
are some of the more common values,
charset Parameter |
Description |
<param
name="charset" value="SJIS"> |
Shift-JIS,
Japanese |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1250"> |
Eastern
European |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1251"> |
Cyrillic |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1252"> |
Latin-1 |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1253"> |
Greek |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1254"> |
Turkish |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1255"> |
Hebrew |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1256"> |
Arabic |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1257"> |
Baltic |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp1258"> |
Vietnamese |
<param
name="charset" value="Cp874"> |
Thai |
<param
name="charset" value="GBK"> |
Chinese
(simplified) |
<param
name="charset" value="JIS0208"> |
JIS
X 0208, Japanese |
<param
name="charset" value="EUC_KR"> |
KSC
5601, EUC encoding, Korean |
For the complete list of possible values please click
here.
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