[thelist] Charset not respected
David Travis
dwork at macam.ac.il
Thu May 27 07:22:05 CDT 2004
Hi there,
It could be that there is a charset header sent back with the response (a
real HTTP header), which causes the problem.
You need to run a request with some HTTP utility, that displays the full
HTTP response (HTTP headers + content).
There is a cool utility called WFetch, it is really simple and useful for
such cases.
I would recommend it to any web developer.
Google for it.
David Travis.
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Dan CRACIUN
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:57 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Charset not respected
Hi listers,
On a forum (in romanian) I've noticed that the diachritics were missing.
So I thought that the page encoding is missing or is not properly
defined. To my surprise:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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was present, but both Firefox and IE 6 seem to ignore it and switch to
the default western(ISO-8859-1). Of course, when I manually switch to
the proper encoding, the page displays just fine.
I know that I'm overlooking something obvious, but I can't put my finger
over it.
TIA,
Dan CRACIUN
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