- From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@activemath.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:28:59 +0200
- To: www-math@w3.org
David Carlisle wrote: > when you see an accented A before a character in the latin 1 set this is almost > always a sign that you are reading the document with a system expecting > latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) encoding but the document is encoded in UTF-8. > > There may be several reasons for this. > > 1) your server is sending the document with an HTTP header that > incorrectly asserts the document is latin 1 encoded, so overidin > the utf8 encoding specified in the file Well, we have observed that most browsers do honour always the encoding given in the file even though the server gives a different header. It's actually funny with titles: try a chinese page, and put the encoding meta tag before or after the title... > 2) your browser is set to override the specified encoding and forcing > latin 1 (look for example in view/encoding in IE, it should be set > to auto-select). > > 3) any number of programs along the way has messed up the encoding > information.... Encoding will eternally be a hell precisely for that... (other systems in the way may include your console !!) I can't understand that modern OS did not switch entirely to UTF-8... it's really sad. Maybe one of the reasons is that Emacs 20 was still widespread these last years... Paul
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