2000 What does content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" do???

[Cynthia]

I was running a spider simulator, it was giving me strange
returns on what it saw in my meta tags when i had the
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type" content="text/html;
charsetwindows-1252 line in with the meta tags. So i
removed it. It doesn't appear to have had any affect that
I can see, but i would like to know what it is supposed to
do and if it is necessary. I use Frontpage 2000. Also
does it hurt to use the enter key to get a fresh line when
typing in the html mode? Thanks in advance for any help,
i looked in my frontpage 2000 bible it just said that
frontpage automatically put it in when you create a new
page.

 

[Bill Schroyer]

The CHARSET attribute, specifies the international name of
a character set. These character sets specify a mapping
and repertoire of available characters. In most cases ,
one would probably be happy using "ISO 8859-1". This
characterset covers most western languages and symbols.
This is also the characterset most commonly referenced in
various documentation.
http://www.drclue.net/F1.cgi/HTML/META/META.html

The enter key puts 2 spaces per line, shift+enter puts a
break or 1 space per line.

Bill Schroyer
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.frontpagewiz.com

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I was running a spider simulator, it was giving me
strange returns on what it saw in my meta tags when i
had the <meta http-equiv=Content-Type"
content="text/html; charsetwindows-1252 line in with the
meta tags. So i removed it. It doesn't appear to have
had any affect that I can see, but i would like to know
what it is supposed to do and if it is necessary. I use
Frontpage 2000.

That meta tag indicates that that the page is HTML, and it
uses the Windows version of the Western Alphabet.

Also does it hurt to use the enter key to get a fresh
line when typing in the html mode?

Not unless some evil fourth-grader has hidden thumbtacks
point-up on the key caps.

Seriously, pressing the Enter key creates the HTML to
start a new paragraph, and this is perfectly valid HTML.

Thanks in advance for any help, i looked in my frontpage
2000 bible it just said that frontpage automatically put
it in when you create a new page.

To get rid of the
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
line in the FrontPage GUI:

1. Open the Web page.
2. Choose Properties from the File menu.
3. Click the Language tab.
4. Change the Save The Document As setting from
US/Western European (Windows) to <none>.

To change the default for an entire Web site:
1. Open the Web site.
2. Choose Site Settings from the Tools menu.
3. Click the Language tab.
4. Change Default Page Encoding from
US/Western European (Windows) to <none>.

Please note that changing the default will only stop the
meta tag from appearing in new pages. It won't remove the
meta tags from existing pages.

To remove the meta tag from existing pages, do a
Find/Replace on All Pages with Find In Source Code in
effect. The Find What text would be the entire meta tag,
and the Replace With text would be an empty string.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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