At 01:39 PM 6/28/01, rudy wrote: >is there a reason not to use this meta tag? -- > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" > content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> > >with apologies, i cannot remember where i heard it, in fact i cannot >remember if i heard it correctly... > >oh heck, i cannot remember anything now except ... > >.. that maybe you needn't bother including this tag in your page's html, >since that's the default header that the web server is supposed to send, >assuming the web server has been set up correctly FWIW, CNET Builder.com has an article from last year about character sets where they recommended having that META tag there. <will_it_wrap?> http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/Tagmania/012400/ss02.html </will_it_wrap?> Bill Mason data at data1701d.com Dateline: Starfleet http://www.data1701d.com http://profile.guru.com/billmason