Re: utf8 vs iso-8859-1

On Apr 4, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
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> the w3c web server text pages come with a http header
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> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
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> and some have
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> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML lang="en">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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> As far as I understand, the http header has precedence. On most pages there
> is an iso-8859 encoded copyright symbol, which does not get displayed correctly
> in firefox.

Peter,

Thank you for the notes. Please send me URIs to any pages where you detect this.

Ian

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Received on Friday, 4 April 2014 13:29:28 UTC