Lachlan Hunt wrote: [snip]
Did you read my article [1] which Rimantas referred you to? That
explains what you're supposed to do. You need to use real HTTP
headers, not the inferior meta element. The end of that article links
to another that actually explains how to set the charset parameter in
the HTTP headers using various servers and server-side scripting
languages [2].
Well Lachlan, not only did I read it, I printed it out and read it in
bed at around 1.50am! (now that's keen!)
However, I remain confused in the particular case of the PHP approach.
The PHP looks to see
"if(stristr($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"],"application/xhtml+xml"))" and on
that basis it describes the appropriate prolog, mimetype and charset. So
the final three lines of the php code (where the action takes place :-)
are:
header("Content-Type: $mime; charset=$charset");
header("Vary: Accept");
print $prolog_type;
One therefore assumes that the 'real http headers' ARE being used in
this case. However, if I do that I can only get Chinese unless I get
PHP to echo the meta tag:
<?php
if ($mime == "application/xhtml+xml")
{
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"
content=\"application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\" />";
}
else
{
echo"<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;
charset=utf-8\"/>";
}
?>
And I'm confused, because (if I've understood it properly) this should
not be required?
--
Best Regards,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (UK)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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