[thelist] Charset not respected

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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