What you are seeing is the Netscape Charset Burp [1]. Using a true HTTP header to set the character set is one solution. [1] http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/ns-burp.html - chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Carter" <sam at nativeintelligence.com> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 6:54 AM Subject: [thelist] Netscape 4.X - Asian Character set flash > I've done some web pages using the utf-8 character set which display fine in > modern browsers. > > Netscape 4.7 on the other hand, briefly flashes the page with "Asian > Characters" after initial page load, goes blank for just a moment, then > reappears properly using western characters. > > Is there any way to suppress this flash? > > Sam > > -- > * * Please support the community that supports you. * * > http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester > and archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org > Workers of the Web, evolt ! >