On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:29:02 +0200 André Malo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Doesn't look like it from a glance at the svn. No change to the XSLT > > since 2009. More likely the server suddenly started incorrectly sending > > it as utf-8. > > > > However, that does beg the question: shouldn't we move to utf-8 > > This begs another question: Why would we want that? Well, Vincent has given us one reason. More below ... > > How has infra handled multiple charsets in the past? > > mod_mime, I believe (modulo some exceptional handling for special > extensions). Most certainly, it was delivered as iso-8859-1 before, if not > specified otherwise via file extension. > > AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1 or even better an AddCharset iso-8859-1 .html > for the manual section should solve the problem. For English, yes. For French - up to a point, as noted by Vincent. For Japanese, Chinese, etc ... no chance. utf-8 is, in theory at least, universal. A quick grep reveals that our Russian and Korean translations use different charsets. Anyone from those teams reading this? Would utf-8 serve you well? -- Nick Kew Available for work, contract or permanent. http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
