[WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)
I launched a new site a few days ago and received a report that the site is showing in another language and/or foreign characters even though meta http-equiv=content-language content=en / is declared in the HEAD. The person reporting is using Safari (v. unknown) and I think on a Mac (not sure if this info is applicable). is an XHTML site and validated as such. Example PDF printscreen of issue: http://www.artscouncilnapavalley.org/lang_issue.pdf Website is: http://www.artscouncilnapavalley.org Thoughts appreciated - Thank you, Kristine *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Kristine Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I launched a new site a few days ago and received a report that the site is showing in another language and/or foreign characters even though meta http-equiv=content-language content=en / is declared in the HEAD. That might be useful to search engines for deciding what language your content is in, but I don't think any browsers pay attention to language hints. The person reporting is using Safari (v. unknown) and I think on a Mac (not sure if this info is applicable). is an XHTML site and validated as such. On my Mac using Safari 3.0.4 the site displays just fine. Thoughts appreciated - Thank you, Without any more information, I'd guess the problem is specific to that person's computer. It could be that the font specification of palatino linotype is causing Safari to make some weird substitution that's not working out, but that'd be a bug. Well, there's a bug somewhere... Good luck -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)
On Mar 20, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Kristine Cummins wrote: showing in another language and/or foreign characters... I don't know if this is applicable, but I was opening/closing fonts on my Mac the other day to work on a project in Illustrator - to my dismay, I found sections of various sites (Craigslist, particularly) were showing up in exactly the same manner. Turned out that one of the Symbol fonts was simply named Helvetica (or whatever it may have been) and Safari was grabbing the Symbol rather than the alphabet font. The problem also showed in some TextEdit docs.. If this is an isolated incident, I'd lay odds that its a system configuration issue that has nothing to do with your site - which, incidentally, looks just fine on this Mac. Andrew *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***