Saqib Shaikh wrote: > recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the > address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that > microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i > also booted windows and had the same problem. ie asks if you want to > install support for chinese characters, and if you cancel the page has > weird stuff all over it. it i go to www.debian.org there is no > problem. i think this is a serious problem, and could someone please > tell me who to inform of this strange problem.
Complain to Microsoft. The page DOES contain Chinese characters, as does www.debian.org, of which it is a mirror. Down at the bottom of the page, there are brief statements in a number of languages, Chinese among them. Why IE complains about one but not the other is beyond me. The simple workaround, I suppose, would be to go ahead and let IE install its Chinese character support. If that doesn't work, then maybe IE just fundamentally can't handle a mixture of character sets on a single page. Craig
