Hi Jason,

> I don't understand; why do you think it's overriding the default
> encoding?  The default encoding is UTF-8, and that's what the pages
> are being served as.

The page I referred to has this HTML header:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

I am guessing (this is not my area of expertise) that when the www.fvwm.org
web server serves up this page, it says it has a UTF-8 encoding &
therefore my web browser (Firefox) renders it using UTF-8 instead of
ISO-8859-1 (as specified in the actual .html file).

Does that sound plausible?

If so, I am just asking if it's possible for the www.fvwm.org web
server not to specify/override the encoding. Then, presumably, the
web browser would determine the encoding from the HTML header & it
would render correctly.

If something I've said sounds unreasonable assume ignorance, not malice.

Scott. :)

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