umlauts

I V ivlenin at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 14:57:23 EDT 2009


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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