Microsoft KB Archive/214439

= Internet Explorer Uses Latin-1 Character Set for Absolute Character Values =

Article ID: 214439

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q214439



SYMPTOMS
When you display a page that contains numeric character references (NCRs), the characters may not be presented in the character set defined for the page.



CAUSE
Internet Explorer 3.x interprets NCRs as bytes within the system's active code page. Internet Explorer 4 interprets NCRs as Unicode code points. This can cause issues with pages authored for Internet Explorer 3.x using NCRs and designed for character sets other than Latin-1. Internet Explorer 4 treats values less than 256 as Latin-1, and greater than 256 as Unicode.



RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, code the characters directly into the page and avoid using NCR notation for characters not included in the Latin-1 character set.

Keywords: kbenv kbprb KB214439

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