- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:42:40 +0000
- To: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
Hello Frank, On 2019/03/11 19:22, Frank da Cruz wrote: > I have tons of pages encoded in ISO-8859-1. I know they all > should be converted to UTF-8 but I'm putting it off because > I do all my editing in EMACS and it's not 100% with UTF-8 yet. If EMACS isn't 100% okay with UTF-8, then which editor would be? > By accident I changed a Spanish-language HTML5 web page to say: > > <meta charset=utf-8> > > without changing the encoding of the page. I was surprised > to see that the page still displays correctly in both Firefox > and Chrome, and when I check the page properties, both say UTF-8, > which tells me that the Web server isn't overriding the page's > internal declaration. > > No validator that I have tried tells me there is anything > wrong with the page. > > Do you know why the web browsers are showing this page in proper > Spanish when the encoding is not the declared charset? I have no idea. Is this page public? Or do you have some other page that is public and behaves the same? Can you give us a pointer? Regards, Martin. > Thanks, > > Frank da Cruz
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