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Posted by dorayme on 09/16/05 13:25
> From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk>
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, dorayme wrote:
>
>>> From: "Dan" <dan@tobias.name>
>>>
>>> Better to get the server to send a real HTTP header to that effect, for
>>> which the meta tag is merely an inferior substitute.
>>
>> And this is done by ...?
>
> Reading existing postings, FAQs and (gasp) documentation is said to be
> quite efficacious.
>
Depends.
> Failing that, http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset
> might offer some useful hints.
OK... I took a look. I usually just put
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
in the head and no one seems to have had any trouble with my
websites on this account. But I understand it is not the best.
So be a sport and just say what else I should do exactly. Put
what where or do what. If it is "contact the various servers and
ask them this and that and ..." I will likely have to put it off
because of work pressures... If it is a matter of putting some
definite text (somewhere in my html docs) I will do that.
If anything happens to my sites, if the sites turn up in Chinese
or if a Russian mafia gang gets upset because of text
difficulties and sets out to put a contract on my family of my
cat, I will hold you personally responsible if it is a simple
matter of me putting a bit of text in the right place. You, Alan
Flavell, come on: spill the beans!
I am not immedietely helped by remarks in the reference you give
such as:
"It is very important to always label Web documents explicitly.
HTTP 1.1 says that the default charset is ISO-8859-1. But there
are too many unlabeled documents in other encodings, so browsers
use the reader's preferred encoding when there is no explicit
charset parameter.
The line in the HTTP header typically looks like this:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
Because what is it I am supposed to do in a concrete manner. I
know I should know these things by now but I don't and that is
where you come in... What is the point in me having an indirect
relationship with you if you don't come good on this stuff? No
point at all, that's the point. Spill the beans and tell me all
Alan... :)
dorayme
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