IE Unicode issue

siraj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
   I faced a weird issue in IE. I tried to display a Farsi character in drop down list through a per cgi . 
 It is displaying correctly in Firefox. In IE some of the characters are displaying differently. 
 However in the view source of IE , the charters are appearing correctly.

Kindly suggest if there is any problem in encode/decode or its an IE issue?.

Thanks in advance
Siraj

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Re: IE Unicode issue by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 06, 2010 at 06:18 UTC
You probably didn't specify the encoding, in which case your browser has to guess. Specify the charset in the Content-Type header (HTML) or in the `<?xml?>` directive (XHTML).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: IE Unicode issue by Anonymous Monk on Sep 06, 2010 at 06:21 UTC
Bytes are what gets sent over the wire, encodings are how those bytes are arranged, charset is HTTP/HTML way of communicating encoding, they should match up	[reply]