Browser test request/TAN

[M. Roy Harris]

Would someone using a browser other than Netscape Navigator 4.1 take a
look at

http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference

and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown? On
the Netscape Navigator 4.1 display, they seem to appear as the HTML
encoding itself instead of the desired accented character.

Thanks,
Roy

M. Roy Harris, Professor Emeritus | e-mail mr...@Virginia.EDU
French Language & Literature | tel (804) 924-7158
University of Virginia, 302 Cabell | fax (804) 924-7157
Charlottesville VA 22903

[Robert Binkley]

All the accents look fine in Opera 3.1

Bob Binkley

[David G. Becker]

** Reply to note from Nota Bene List <NOTA...@VM.TAU.AC.IL> Wed, 15 Apr
1998 18:33:13 -0400

I'm running the new 128-bit version of NN 2.02 for OS/2
Warp. This version is supposed to be operationally
identical to NN 3.x for Windows; like most Warp users I've
arranged for NN to be invoked with the "-3" command line
parameter, which causes it to identify itself on the Internet,
whenever queried, as NN 3.x. Anyway, I went to the site
in question and found all accents displayed perfectly
normally, even with capital letters. The same was true of
all other "high-order" ASCII characters, such as the
Continental quote marks << >>.

David G. Becker
Department of Government
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755 USA
Tel: (603) 646-3337
FAX: (603) 646-2152

[Jukka-Pekka Takala]

Roy,

Took a look and their HTML encoding of accented chars seems faulty (or
at least non-standard): they lack the final semicolon:

&eacute -> &eacute;

j-p takala

[Paul F. Schaffner]

> http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference
>
> and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown?

Roy, it looks as though most or all of the trailing semicolons have
been left off the character entities. Netscape is able to interpret
correctly only the ones that happen to terminate in a space; Internet
Explorer seems able to interpret them all correctly--it displays true
accents. The coding itself is wrong: but IE seems a little more
robust at coping with it. This on only a very cursory look.

Paul
p...@umich.edu

[Kenneth Salzberg]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, M. Roy Harris wrote:

> Would someone using a browser other than Netscape Navigator 4.1 take a
> look at
>

> http://newescape.fr/Culture/History/Cathares/ReneNelli.html#Reference
>

> and see if the foreign accents in this French text are correctly shown? On
> the Netscape Navigator 4.1 display, they seem to appear as the HTML
> encoding itself instead of the desired accented character.

In my netscape 3.1 Gold browser, they show up correctly.

-Ken

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[M. Roy Harris]

Many thanks to all who replied on- and offline to my query. It appears
that Netscape Navigator 4.1 is not the best choice to view some HTML
documents. Besides various versions of Microsoft Explorer mentioned in
replies, a browser called Opera, previously unknown to me, appears to be
"more robust" in reading coding without the semicolon. BTW, is Opera
pronounced as in _Metropolitan Opera_ or as in _opera,_ the plural of
Latin _opus_?

[Robert Binkley]

I say Opera as in Verdi, but without authority. It's a product of Norway,
but available world wide on various platforms and in various languages.
Costs around $35 US. Smaller and faster than the competition. Check
http://www.operasoftware.com
from which you can download a 30 day trial version which you register and
pay for later if you want.

Bob Binkley

> . . . a browser called Opera, previously unknown to me, appears to be