On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:30:12PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:00, Sagi Bashari wrote: > > >1) Hebrew pages are sent as "western" encoding... > > >the text is right but for some reason the browser sets itself to "western" > > >instead of Hebrew. > > >if I set it to "Hebrew" its fine (until I refresh or click a link). > > > > Just comment the default encoding in httpd.conf to make it use the meta > > tag in your files. HTML headers have higher priority than meta tags. > > This is not correct - HTML meta tags override HTTP headers, as they are a > higher level of abstraction and convey a knowledge the lower level cannot > have, of the content of the transmission.
You are right in your rationale. It is the standard that is broken: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2 1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field. 2. A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a value set for "charset". 3. The charset attribute set on an element that designates an external resource. > > I know there are some broken browsers (no names) which for some weird > combination of settings disregard HTML meta tags in favor of headers, but > this is hardly the norm, nor the standard. Mozilla? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
