Using International Extensions in Internet Explorer 3.0

ID: q156587

The information in this article applies to:

SUMMARY

When you install International Extensions for Internet Explorer 3.0, you can view Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents created in international character sets while using the English language version of Internet Explorer. The following character sets are available:

If an international character set is installed, an extra icon appears in the Internet Explorer status bar. This icon appears as a globe with several flags in front of it. Clicking the flag allows you to choose the active character set from the currently installed sets.

MORE INFORMATION

If you are creating an HTML document and want to specify a character set to be used automatically by Internet Explorer for viewing the document, you can place a META tag at the beginning of the HTML code that specifies the character set to use. The META tag should have the following syntax 

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=#">
where # is the code for the character set to be used.

The following table lists the character sets and their corresponding codes: 

   Code           Character set
   ----------------------------------------------
   windows-1250   Central European (Windows-1250)
   iso-8859-2     Central European (8859-2)
   windows-1251   Cyrillic (Windows-1251)
   koi8-r         Cyrillic (KOI8-R)
   windows-1252   Western (Windows-1252)
   windows-1253   Greek (Windows-1253)
   iso-2022-jp    Japanese (JIS)
   x-euc-jp       Japanese (EUC)
   x-sjis         Japanese (Shift-JIS)
   korean         Korean (KSC 5601)
   windows-1254   Turkish (Windows-1254)
   windows-1257   Baltic (Windows-1257)
   big5           Chinese (big5)
   gb_2312-80     Chinese (simplified) (GB2312)
NOTE: Japanese (autodetect) is not actually a character set, but rather a logic routine that determines whether to use the JIS, EUC, or Shift-JIS character set based on the text contained in the HTML document. Japanese (autodetect) cannot be specified using the META tag.

For information about obtaining International Extensions for Internet Explorer 3.0, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q155049
   TITLE     : International Extensions for Internet Explorer 3.0
               Available
Additional query words: 3.00 multilanguage support 
Keywords          : kbusage msiew95 msient 
Version           : 3.0 3.01 3.02
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: April 10, 1998