RE: For review: Character encodings in HTML and CSS

Beware of relying solely on examples for learning ;-)  A little further down
the text at each of the links you point to, you'll see "The extension
argument is case-insensitive, and can be specified with or without a leading
dot."

RI

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Halvard Silli [mailto:xn--mlform-iua@målform.no]
> Sent: 15 February 2010 23:08
> To: ishida@w3.org
> Cc: CE Whitehead; www-international@w3.org
> Subject: RE: For review: Character encodings in HTML and CSS
> 
> Richard,
> 
> I spotted an error:
> 
> CE Whitehead, Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:25:08 -0500:
> 
> >> Speaking about using HTTP: Under the heading "What is a HTTP header"
> >>
> (<http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-
> enc/temp#httpheadwhat>),
> >> it is adviced to configure Apache to server all HTML pages encoded as
> >> UTF8:
> >>
> >> "AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html"
> 
> You forgot to add a 'dot' before 'html', like so:
> 
> AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' .html
> 
> See examples here:
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype
> --
> leif halvard silli

Received on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 14:12:28 UTC