one more thing:
when I get and save the output from:
www.google.com/ig/api?weather=dalian&hl=zh-CN I found the BOM is FF FE, i.e. UTF-16LE.
but the encoding does not seem UTF-16...
because the browser(firefox2) say it's UTF-8 from view->character encoding.
one discouraging issue for beginner!
with the same URL with Internet Exploer: when I see menu: view->encoding, the pop up menu says:
GB2312
Unicode(UTF-8)
X Unicode
Other
and the menu is grey, forbidding user to re-choose.
[ July 19, 2008: Message edited by: gang lee ]