[thelist] Character Encoding Mismatch

[.jeff]

rudy,

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> From: rudy
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> > CFMX outputs utf-8 by default
>
> nice to know -- what about earlier versions?
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not that i can tell.

the real difference is in the content-type header.  from a cf5.0 site:

cmd> GET / HTTP/1.0
cmd> Host: www.evolt.org
cmd>
text/html => document.htm
RequestDone Error = 0
StatusCode = 200
Received 32166 bytes
hdr>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
hdr>Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:59:18 GMT
hdr>Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
hdr>Page-Completion-Status: Normal
hdr>Set-Cookie: CFID=2285061; expires=Sun, 27-Sep-2037 00:00:00 GMT; path=/;
hdr>Set-Cookie: CFTOKEN=14339979; expires=Sun, 27-Sep-2037 00:00:00 GMT; path=/;
hdr>Connection: close
hdr>Content-Type: text/html

from a cfmx site:

cmd> GET / HTTP/1.0
cmd> Host: hb.jeffhowden.com
cmd>
text/html; charset=utf-8 => document.htm
RequestDone Error = 0
StatusCode = 200
Received 4825 bytes
hdr>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
hdr>Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
hdr>Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:49:04 GMT
hdr>Content-Language: en-US
hdr>Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

there are two things noticaly different.  one is the addition of the content-language header.  the second is the addition of the charset information in the content-type header.

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> >  <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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> > then you can leave your meta tag alone.
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> i don't get it
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> does the cfcontent create a meta tag? or some kind
> of http header?
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http header

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> if so, it seems kind of superfluous to code a meta tag
> that says the same thing
>
> however, please note this is an important question,
> because the charset is mandatory for w3c validation
>
> if i code one, and use cfcontent, will i get two?
>
> (yeah, i know i can test this myself, but maybe you can
> save me the agro)
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well, you really should have both.  some useragents will use the one in the headers while others will use whatever it finds in <meta> tags.  but, and here's the rub, they gotta be the same to make the validator not chirp at ya.

.jeff

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