Re: UTF-8 output

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:55, James Henstridge wrote:
> jrb pointed this issue out on IRC.  If you look at the documentation at:
>     http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/index.html
> 
> You will notice that it doesn't display the "Next >>>" link correctly 
> (there is a little bit of garbage between "Next" and ">>>").
> 
> I investigated this problem, and it is because mozilla is interpreting 
> the web page as being Latin1, while it is actually UTF-8 encoded (the 
> garbage is the UTF-8 representation of a non-breaking space).  This 
> seems to be due to a conflict between the headers sent by the web 
> server, and the <meta> tag in the page itself:
> 
>     Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> The http headers take precedence, and disables the browser's encoding 
> detection routines.  

So am I understanding correctly here - the web server is ignoring the
actual encoding of the document (UTF-8 in this case) and automatically
informing the browser it's "charset=ISO-8859-1" no matter what it is?

Cheers,
John
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