Re: [PHP] Re: set cookie with non-english
On Mon, October 9, 2006 6:21 pm, Nisse Engström wrote: No matter. Thanks for the information. By the bye, are we talking IE in general, or specific versions thereof? Put it this way: *ANYTHING* you can say about IE at all, is not about IE in general, but only about specific versions thereof. :-) :-) :-) Maybe it's not really that bad, but it seems that way to me every time I do any QA testing. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: set cookie with non-english
On Sun, October 8, 2006 12:51 am, Nisse Engström wrote: * I use META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 in my page The META thing might be good for storing pages on disk, but on the web you should use real HTTP headers. Except IE will *ignore* your HTTP headers. You need real HTTP headers for real browsers, *and* the META tag for IE, if you want your charset to be honored. IE will use some weird guess based on the bytes in the document to choose a charset. It mostly guesses right, except when it doesn't. For some reason, MSIE thinks HTML designers and META tags are absolutely believable, but headers are just silly things that are never reliable. This applies to everything from Content-type to charset. -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: set cookie with non-english
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:17:37 -0500 (CDT), Richard Lynch wrote: On Sun, October 8, 2006 12:51 am, Nisse Engström wrote: The META thing might be good for storing pages on disk, but on the web you should use real HTTP headers. Except IE will *ignore* your HTTP headers. You need real HTTP headers for real browsers, *and* the META tag for IE, if you want your charset to be honored. IE will use some weird guess based on the bytes in the document to choose a charset. It mostly guesses right, except when it doesn't. For some reason, MSIE thinks HTML designers and META tags are absolutely believable, but headers are just silly things that are never reliable. This applies to everything from Content-type to charset. I knew IE held some animosity towards the HTTP specification, but I didn't know it paid more respect to some bobs of META than the corresponding bits of HTTP. Or maybe I did know but have forgotten. No matter. Thanks for the information. By the bye, are we talking IE in general, or specific versions thereof? --nfe -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
