Cannot input russian letters with IE6, while with Netscape 4.7 can

[Vik]

Hi All,

I am trying to use cgi:irc client on Apache.
There is no problem with english letters. But when I switch language, every
russian character comes to the application coded in a sequence of a 6 chars,
like %u0439 stands for 'q' key in russian register.
I found that it is browser dependent. In IE6, as well as in Netscape 7, it
works wrong as above, while with Netscape 4.7 the code is passed through
correctly.

Could somebody explain me, what I am doing wrong and how to handle it?

Thanks!

 

[Rob Parsons]

Hi Vik,

I have no experience with this and I am only making a guess. Here is a link

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html

 

[Vik]

Hi Rob,

Your guess was right. Perfect link, I love it!

The fix appeared to be pretty easy. It the application, they heavily use
javascript on a page. And my guess is that javascript engine interpretes
characters according to the default charset. In the last version of
application, which is now 0.5.7, the default charset was, utf-8. After
replacement it with koi-8r in a file .../interfaces/ie.pm, all works fine.

So, many, many thanks!
- Vik