Re: web server bug ?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> hi all,
>
> I just updated my GObject doc today just to notice something really
> weird: if you look at http://www.gnome.org/~mathieu/gobject/main.html
> with mozilla, you'll see weird characters showing up at the left of the
> line which holds my email address for example. If you download the file,
> and view it locally with mozilla, the characters do not show up. 
>
> I wonder if someone knows how to fix this in my html (automatically
> generated with RH9's default docbook xml xsl stylesheets).
>  
Your document is encoded in UTF-8, while the webserver is asserting that 
its mime type is "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" (this is a common 
webserver configuration, that apparently works around some security hole 
in browsers).  So the multibyte unicode characters in the document come 
out as multiple characters.

You can fix this by either using a customisation layer that sets the 
default.encoding property to ISO-8859-1, or set it directly on the 
command line:

 xsltproc --stringparam default.encoding ISO-8859-1 
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/chunk.xsl 
filename.xml

Any characters outside of the latin1 range will be encoded as entities, 
and should display okay.

James.

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