umlauts

Arian Kuschki arian.kuschki at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 17 13:54:59 EDT 2009


I just checked and I see the following in the headers:
Content-Type text/xml; charset=UTF-8

Where does it say ISO-8859-1?

On Sat 17, 20:57 +0200, I V wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:54:10 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 
> > This is wierd. I looked at the site in FireFox - and it was displayed
> > correctly, including umlauts. Bringing up the info-dialog claims the
> > page is UTF-8, the XML itself says so as well (implicit, through the
> > missing declaration of an encoding) - but it clearly is *not* utf-8.
> 
> The headers correctly identify it as ISO-8859-1, which overrides the 
> implicit specification of UTF-8. I'm not sure why Firefox is reporting it 
> as UTF-8 (it does that for me, too); I can see the umlauts, so it's 
> clearly processing it as ISO-8859-1.
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