--On 13 December 2005 14:02:29 +0000 Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>
>> probably nothing. It says charset=UTF-8 in the document meta, so, IIRW,
>> that should override whatever the web server says it is.
>> So, if I am not mistaken, Nigel is using a funny browser.
>
> I can see the problem. I am using Firefox on a Gentoo Linux box. I don't
> think it's particularly "funny".
>
>
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As far as I can tell, both the HTML headers, and the document say this is a
utf-8 document. So, either this has been fixed recently, or the problem is
a browser setting.
It is possible to tell Firefox to use a specific encoding, overriding the
server and document settings.
% curl -I
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/filter.html
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:29:15 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (FreeBSD) mod_python/3.1.4 Python/2.4
Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:07:52 GMT
ETag: "35b246-1d44e-ca2fa600"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 119886
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Cache: MISS from proxyx4.uscs.susx.ac.uk
X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from proxyx4.uscs.susx.ac.uk:8080
Connection: close
curl
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/filter.html | head
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<style xmlns="" type="text/css">
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Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS
