[WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)

2008-03-20 Thread Kristine Cummins
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


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Re: [WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)

2008-03-20 Thread Nikita The Spider The Spider
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Kristine Cummins
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 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/
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Re: [WSG] META content-lang. declared but showing up different (for one person reporting)

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Maben


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







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