IE renders form differently from R5 & R6

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We are upgrading from Domino R5 to R6. When I load a form in IE 6 from R5, encoding is Western European (ISO). When I load the same form from R6, encoding is UTF-8. When I View Source, I can see nothing that would account for this. I tried adding a Meta tag to the HTML Head Content object:

“<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">”

IE ignores this and still uses UTF-8.

The problem is that the font in input fields with UTF-8 is wider than the Western font (Arial is specified but my understanding is that IE ignores font-face tags). This almost doubles the size of my size 2 fields.

I can display the form correctly by manually changing encoding to Western. Is there a way to:

  1. force IE to use Western or

  2. reduce the font width

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Subject: IE renders form differently from R5 & R6

If you are moving to ND6 (aka R6), then you should be able to take advantage of the Character Set property for a Form. Open the form properties dialog box, and goto the second tab (looks like a beanie hat). In the “On Web Access” section, you should see a Character Set dropdown. Select your prefered character set. Save the form and give it a shot.