- From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:27:31 -0700
- To: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Cc: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, Vojtech Rynda <voitech@seznam.cz>, www-validator@w3.org
scripsit Lloyd Wood: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Olivier Thereaux wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002, Lloyd Wood wrote: > > > > Your server is sending the header > > > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > > > > which overrides the charset specified within the HTML document. > > > > > > Surely the charset in the document should take precedence? > > > > No, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2 > > Thanks. > > I can't decide if that's a very subtle way to get Content-Type used > properly, or just very very broken. IMHO it's broken simply because a huge amount of Web content is deployed by developers/designers who have no control over their servers. I may develop a Japanese-language Web site hosted in the U.S., where the Web server wants to call everything Latin-1 -- so I would use a <meta> to tell clients I'm using UTF-8. Unless I have the financial resources to set up a colo which is mine to play with, I have to live with imperfect server configuration. It's a fact of life for most private-citizen sites. -- This e-mail was brought to you by the number e. Thanasis Kinias Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatulūk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulūk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
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