Hello,

I am currently trying to display Japanese and Chinese text in my webpages. I am attempting to do so in UTF-8 encoding, and encountered a peculiar problem with IE.

Although my webhost allows .htaccess files, and I have set it to deliver HTML files in UTF-8 encoding by default, this little... problem I've encountered intrigues me.

I've used the following META tag to change the character encoding, and though it works perfectly in Firefox, Internet Explorer isn't understanding this. It still displays the page as ISO-8859-1 (thus displaying garbage rather than the Japanese/Chinese text) unless I manually change it.

Is this normal IE behaviour? Is there any way to correct it, if one could not set the encoding through the actual HTTP header?

Thanks,
Laogeodritt

<meta name="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">