Re: Gamin website

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:03:23PM +0000, James Henstridge wrote:
> There is no web browser bugs involved here (other than internet explorer
> not supporting application/xhtml+xml).
> 
> Your pages had the text/html mime type before.  The "AddDefaultCharset"
> header is in use on www.gnome.org to set the default encoding to UTF-8. 
> This meant that your pages were being served with the
> "text/html;charset=utf-8" media type.
> 
> When the encoding is specified in the headers, it overrides the encoding
> set inside the document (the same goes for text/xml).
> 
> If you set "AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1" in your .htaccess file then
> the files would be served as "text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1", which would
> solve the encoding problem.

  Why on earth do you try to override the charset of the pages blindly,
especially since this take predecedence over the charset indicated in the
pages !

 oh well

Daniel

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