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[Fwd: Re: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.501/f02/hiragana.html]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Grant)
Fri Oct 17 04:17:08 2003
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:21:37 +0100
From: "J. Grant" <jg-web@jguk.org>
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Could you advise them on how to fix their web pages please?
Regards
JG
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Subject: Re: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.501/f02/hiragana.html
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:33:58 -0400
From: Jin Zhang <jinzhang@MIT.EDU>
To: J. Grant <jg@jguk.org>
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030930213916.00aeefe0@hesiod>
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Hi,
I'm sorry about the feedback system, but is the system for the Japanese
group or for the OCW tech support group? I'm a bit confused, but anyhow, I
think if you want to contact any Japanese teachers about their pages, you
can always search the MIT online directory since the instructors' names are
shown on the OCW course sites. And frankly, this may be disappointing to
you, but I'm in no position to tell other people what to do with their web
pages. I didn't check the Japanese OCW sites, but I assume if they don't
use unicode, there must be somewhere instructions for viewing the web pages
with Japanese words.
Good luck,
Jin Zhang
At 09:24 PM 10/1/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello Jing Zhang,
>
>Thank you for your reply.
>
>I would have used the online feedback system, but it was broken when I
>tried! Is there any reason they do not just use email? It is much more
>reliable.
>
>Yours was the only email address I could find, I found your Manderin
>course interesting too. Also great news that you use unicode!
>
>
>Could you contact the webmasters and ask them to make sure their HTML is
>standards compliant please? I have to guess the charset to be able to
>read the Japanese!
>
>http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.501/f02/hiragana.html
>here is the page headers:
>
>Really this needs to have a "DOCTYPE" specifing the version of the HTML
>standard, and also the charset information. Something like this, if it is
>unicode UTF-8: If you check that page in the validator:
>http://validator.w3.org/ it points out that the page has many errors.
>results:
>http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Focw.mit.edu%2Fans7870%2F21f%2F21f.501%2Ff02%2Fhiragana.html
>Do you know the correct people to contact to correct these problems
>please? Please CC: me if you can when you contact them. Kind regards JG on
>the 01/10/03 02:41, Jin Zhang wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm not really so
>sure about what you meant by the charset meta details, > because this
>email address if for something related to Mandarin, not > Japanese, and I
>did use unicode characters and symbols whenever possible. > > Thank you
>though for your interest in the OCW sites, which is exactly > what they
>are meant for. > > Best regards, > > Jin Zhang > > At 10:41 PM 9/30/2003
>+0100, you wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> You missed all charset meta details from
>this! Why not use UTF-8? >> >> Regards >> >> JG > >
