[thelist] Charset not respected

Thu May 27 07:57:02 CDT 2004

You can get WFetch from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en

Cheers
Ken

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Travis" <dwork at macam.ac.il>
Subject: RE: [thelist] Charset not respected


: 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.
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
: [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">
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
: -----
: 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