HTML and Viewer Encoding Property

Encoding refers to how a host internally represents character data. Hosts that share common architectures represent character data identically. For example, UNIX hosts internally represent character data in ASCII-ISO format, OS/390 hosts in EBCDIC format, and Windows hosts in ASCII-ANSI format.

HTML files are published with a character set encoding that is either automatically generated, by default, or is user-specified. Under some circumstances (for example, the publishing host and retrieving host architectures are different), you might decide to specify a character set encoding that is appropriate for the retrieving host.

To override the default encoding property and supply one that is appropriate to the target host at which the HTML files are to be stored, supply a suitable encoding property. This encoding property indicates that the HTML files should be translated into the specified character set encoding. The encoding that is published with the file is used as the source encoding, and the user-specified encoding is used as the destination encoding.

For complete details about the publish and retrieve encoding behavior topic, see Publish/Retrieve Encoding Behavior.