The Charset tool

Browser on different operating systems don't display all characters the same way. If no "charset"-declaration is included in a web page, it should be interpreted as "iso-latin-1", i.e. western european 8-bit encoding. Characters encoded in the &#nnn; form are to be interpreted as coming from this character set. But some browsers, especially on the Mac, don't get this right (or i might have it wrong ;-) The characters in the "undefined " range (128 .. 160) are open for arbitrary re-interpretation, anyway.

The charset tool displays the characters 0 .. 255 in two ways: as straight 8-bit characters, and in &dec; numeric encoding.

You can call the tool with an option "page" to determine the character page to be shown. using charset.pl?page=1, you can look at the character 256..511. If you display pages > 1, only the numeric encoding will be shown.

A few hints: page 5 contains hebraic; page 6 arabic, page 32 contains differently-sized spaces. IE5 on NT shows some of the characters; NS4.7/NT doesn't.