On 8/24/07, Scott Smedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it be easier to change the html man page encoding instead?
This problem is only in the man pages, so I suppose that would be an
easier fix..

Cheers,
  Renato

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