HTTP delivery
A # in a URL can begin a fragment: check what the server actually receives
In a URI, # introduces a fragment component.
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The viewing journal — page 78
Practical reading about screens, players, Canadian viewing and the decisions behind a better setup.
Accessibility (1)Account security (35)Android TV storage (2)Android audio (2)Android development (2)App compatibility (1)Apple TV (5)Apple TV accessibility (1)Apple TV audio (1)Apple TV remote (3)Audio formats (3)Bluetooth audio (2)Broadcasters and channels (18)Browser development (1)Business enquiries (1)Canadian film discovery (48)Canadian viewing (4)Choosing a service (3)Choosing a setup (3)Chrome (1)Countries, language & schedules (9)Device help (23)Device setup (2)Devices & players (1)Film and programme choices (14)Fire TV (1)Firefox (2)Formuler (2)Geography and language (90)Google Cast (1)Google TV (2)Guide & replay (1)HDMI audio (1)HDMI video (1)HTTP delivery (12)Home networking (20)Internet decisions (12)Kodi (5)LG webOS (4)MAG Linux (2)Movies and series (1)Music, performance and film editions (7)NVIDIA SHIELD (2)Network & performance (1)Network troubleshooting (32)Picture and sound (6)Plans and accounts (5)Platform advice (135)PlayStation (3)Privacy & account safety (1)Privacy and security (6)Privacy decisions (10)Programme guides and viewing choices (49)Programme identities and formats (4)Programme identity and viewing (32)Programme research (100)Remote controls (1)Roku (2)Samsung Tizen (5)Sports (150)Sports & viewing decisions (1)Streaming device power (1)Streaming measurements (12)TV accessibility (2)TV app management (1)TV captions (6)Troubleshooting (3)Using the player (2)VIDAA (1)VLC Android (8)VLC desktop (6)Video formats (16)Viewing away from home (2)Viewing decisions (27)Web browsers (1)Windows (11)Xbox (2)iPad (2)iPhone (1)macOS (4)
Geography and language
Share an Arabic or Hebrew programme title without losing its episode number
A programme title can look scrambled when an Arabic or Hebrew phrase sits beside an English note, parentheses and an episode number.
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An accented programme title looks identical, but search finds nothing
Two copies of an accented title can look the same while using different underlying Unicode sequences.
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Read language, script and region codes in programme metadata
A label such as fr-CA, es-419 or zh-Hans carries different kinds of language information.
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Keep Indigenous archive audience advice before the images and voices
An archive programme may warn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers that it includes people who have died.
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Changing Inuktut writing does not translate the spoken dialect
An Inuktut title can be written in different regional systems or in Inuktut Qaliujaaqpait.
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