--- In eGovINDIA@yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote: In firefox, try this - In menu go to view -> character encoding -> Western(iso--8859-1)

Yes, Laxminarayan Kamath's solution is a very convenient solution and better than mine -no editing is required at all.

Thanks for the simplest and best solution.

Kussh

Kush wrote:

Please see the text file at the end of this message which gives the reason why the asp page won't work till it is edited by hand or a filter plugin used to search for "charset=x-undefined" or similar string and replaced with "charset=iso-8859-1".

This is deliberately done to cause a problem with all browsers. Then the plugin has been made to work only for IE to get over this simple problem which would look exceedingly complex to a layman.

regards, kussh

krishnaact wrote:

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I forwarded your email, and got the response below. Please let him know if it works.

Laxminarayan Kamath" <kamathln@g...> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book To: "Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends@m...> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Fwd: success--in viewing maharashtra's electoral rolls in the open source fire

On 9/10/05, krishnaact <krishnaact@y...> wrote:

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--- In eGovINDIA@yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote: Hi all,

I am trying to see the results for the electoral rolls from http://203.199.16.205/msd/ or any other district except "Mumbai city" .....

and the following lines at the beginning of the source page of the

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result need to be added (which only a person with a little knowledge of html and a text editor would be knowing)

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;

charset=iso-8859-1">

...

Then only the results are seen properly.

In firefox, try this - In menuy go to view -> charector encoding -> Western(iso--8859-1) Please tell me if it works.

How to see the result correctly in any browser? 1 go to http://203.199.16.205/

2 click on the district you want to search for --say mumbai suburban the page will then become http://203.199.16.205/msd

3 add the following string "/default.asp?action=first" to the location ie http://203.199.16.205/msd/default.asp?action=first. Now you will be able to see only the top frame which is what is needed.

4 enter the search criteria and click on the search button. a new results page is opened.

5 save the results page on your computer and open it for editing in a simple text editor such as notepad. Rename the saved file with the extension html instead of asp.

6 search and replace the text "charset=x-user-defined" with "charset=iso-8859-1". Save the file.

7 double click the saved file to view the page and you will be able to see the page in any browser if the surekha font DVBW-TTSurekh has been properly installed in the correct location as given in my earlier

messages.

windows/fonts directory in case of windows or ~/.fonts directory in case of linux. .fonts is a hidden directory and needs to be created if its not already there.

8 if you are not able to see the result properly, finetune the configuration of the browser. For firefox one has to do the following

a-- go to edit --preferences (linux) or tools-options (in windows)

b--click on fonts and colors under general

c--use the following settings for 1 fonts for-- western 2 proportional--serif/sans serif 3 serif-- dvbw-ttsurekh 4 sansserif--dvbw-ttsurekh

5 unclick/disable--"use my fonts" option in case it is enabled

leave other settings unchanged. click on ok, ok and this should work.

Thats it.

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ABOUT THE CDAC PLUGIN-- what it does-- 1 it just copies the missing font onto the users computer --works only for windows operating system. It changes a few parts in the configuration file for the browser --this has to be done by hand for the other browsers. Change the configuration to make use of the newly installed font.

2 it does a simple search for the text "charset=x-user-defined" and replaces it with "charset=iso-8859-1" before the page is displayed on the browser.

It does this by acting as a filter before the asp/html/php webpage is displayed by the browser. Again the plugin works only for Internet

explorer.

But the key question is --why is the result page generated in the wrong way with the incorrect meta tag--thus requiring a filter/plugin and making it impossible for other browsers to view the page correctly.

This is the herapheri which makes a Microsoft product the defacto king in the country and it is patently wrong that certain people in the establishment are promoting this. We have 6 crore voters in maharashtra. Considering that only a 1000 know how to access this page, still enhancing a mindset for these 1000 influential people

Firefox and mozilla browsers are not only stronger/safer/faster and more powerful but they are evolving faster because they are open source. This way countries like China etc will be far ahead of us. China and Japan already are promoting open source in a big way whereas our govt deptts are acting as agents by dereliction of duty and unnecessary hurdles and misinformation.

I am using ubuntulinux (hoary version) which is such a user friendly and windows compatible package that the transition from windows to linux is much more pleasant than the transition to other linuxes --www.ubuntulinux.org--some retraining is required such as knowing how to use the system monitor (substitute task manager/process monitor in windows), synaptic tool for downloading packages/software, klipper (substitute for clipboard in windows), firestarter (substitute firewall such as zone alarm in windows) openoffice (substitute msoffice in windows) thunderbird email client(substitute outlook express in windows) nautilus file manager (substitute windows file manager)d4x (substitute download package like freshdownload or getright or gozilla etc in windows for downloading big files or multiple pages) etc

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