Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 11/28/05 12:29

Nocturnal wrote:

> There is a website I frequent both their forum and main page encoding is
> Cyrillic which is for Russia. The website is not hosted in Russia either.
> In their HTML all of the encoding is set to Iso-8559-1 which is the USA
> standard. What could be overriding their iso-8559-1 and encoding it to
> Cyrillic?

Have you looked at the HTTP header 'Content-Type'? If there's a character
set declared (e.g. 'text/html; charset=utf-8' or similar) it will override
any declaration in the HTML document itself.
(I would not be suprised, if a russian webmaster configures his/her server
to send a default character set suitable for cyrillic documents).

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/

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