https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55741
--- Comment #7 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-...@xn--mlform-iua.no> --- (In reply to Dirkjan Ochtman from comment #6) > (In reply to Nick Kew from comment #4) > > In any case, it looks like a firefox issue (or a local issue). I haven't > > checked it in the latest update, but when I first worked on charset issues, > > the HTTP spec *explicitly* made iso-9958-1 a default if no explicit > > content-type was indicated. Hence a browser needs, at a minimum, to accept > > it. > > That may be so, but I think a bunch of this changed with HTML5 and new-found > enthusiasm for standardizing actual browser behavior. Please check the W3C > table I linked to in the description. “A bunch“ is very unspecific. And HTTP is almost irrelevant to the issue. As a HTML WG invited expert, pointing to the latest draft, I can say that most Firefox locales default to WINDOWS-1252/ISO-8859-1: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/syntax.html#determining-the-character-encoding So, if your alpha version of Firefox 27 parses that page as UTF-8, then it must be because something causes your browser to default to UTF-8. All this being said: If the page *had* declared the encoding properly, we would not have been having this discussion. Because, as is, the page does *not* declare any encoding in a HTML conforming way - HTML5 conformance, these days, is regulated by HTML5. When the browsers fails to find a encoding definition, HTML5.x instructs the parser to default to some encoding - usually a locale default, but it could also be a another default. So, to Nick Kew: It is wrong to say that this is local issue. More correct is that HTML5.x *requires* the browser to fallback to a local encoding when the page - as is the the case here - fails to declare the encoding. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
