Smooth Surfing Beyond the Language Boundary - A Multilingual Browser that identifies Character-coding Systems -

摘要

It is becoming increasingly important to provide users with intelligent browsing tools for data exchange, searching, and retrieval because the Internet now supports so many languages. Conventional WWW browsers allow the user to select an appropriate coding system, but this places a heavy burden on the user if each Web page is encoded with a different coding system. To solve this problem, this paper presents a new multilingual WWW browser that has an identification module to determine the character coding system and each fetched Web page. Unlike conventional web browsers, the proposed browser can correctly display Web pages completely automatically by virtue of the identification module. The browser, implemented using "mozilla", covers 10 coding systems including those used in Eastern-Asian countries.