On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea
<mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Pascal BASTIEN <pbasnews-xw...@yahoo.fr> 
> wrote:
>> Helle,
>> May I?
>>
>> i think it is not a xwiki problem because encoding_vowels.txt file is an 
>> attachment of a web page (it is like a file on FTP site). Xwiki ( fortunely) 
>> doesn't change attachment file content.
>> If I download your file, file command indicate of course: "UTF-8 Unicode 
>> text, with no line terminators"
>> I think it is more a browser problem (chrome doesn't detect UTF8 encoding of 
>> your file)
>> If your attachment is a PDF file, it is the same, it depend of browser (if 
>> PDF reader are included in it or not)
>
>> Htttpheader is for web page an not attachment IMO
>
> When you click on the link the browser makes an HTTP request (with
> headers) without knowing (or caring) what the response may be (HTML,
> text, binary, etc.). The server (XWiki in this case) sends the HTTP
> response **with headers**, because the headers tell the browser what
> to do with the response. The Content-Type header tells the browser
> that the response contains text content. The Content-Type can also
> specify the encoding. If no encoding is specified then the browser
> will attempt to detect the encoding (or use some default / configured
> encoding) which may not be the expected encoding, like in this case.
>
> XWiki needs to specify the right encoding in the Content-Type header.

Problem is that XWiki does not really knows it, not in a generic way.

>
>>
>> Pascal B.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> En date de : Mer 6.5.15, Marius Dumitru Florea 
>> <mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com> a écrit :
>>
>>  Objet: Re: [xwiki-users] struggling with encoding
>>  À: "XWiki Users" <users@xwiki.org>
>>  Date: Mercredi 6 mai 2015, 14h34
>>
>>  On Wed, May 6, 2015 at
>>  2:08 PM, [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo
>>  Rodríguez <ricardo.rodrig...@idisantiago.es>
>>  wrote:
>>  > Hi!
>>  >
>>  > I've set up a XWiki Enterprise 7.0.1
>>  installation to use UTF-8 as per...
>>  >
>>  > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Encoding
>>  >
>>  > In spite of this,
>>  only Chrome (both in Windows and Mac OS X platforms) is
>>  > able to correctly show the five accented
>>  vowels contained in an attached
>>  > file
>>  UTF-8 encoded available here...
>>  >
>>
>>  > 
>> http://portal.idisantiago.es/xwiki/bin/download/ICT/Encoding/encoding_vowels.txt
>>
>>  If I inspect the HTTP headers
>>  of the response I see:
>>
>>  Content-Type: text/plain;charset=
>>
>>  I guess it should have been
>>
>>  Content-Type:
>>  text/plain;charset=utf8
>>
>>  I
>>  can reproduce with a fresh XWiki 7.1M1 (Jetty+HSQLDB). Can
>>  you
>>  report an issue?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Marius
>>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  Firefox (Windows and Mac OS X), Safari and Omniweb in Mac OS
>>  X and Internet
>>  > Explorer show them
>>  wrongly by default as...
>>  >
>>  > 
>> http://portal.idisantiago.es/xwiki/bin/download/ICT/Encoding/badRendering.png
>>  >
>>  > I've to manually
>>  select UTF-8 encoding the read it correctly or select
>>  > UTF-8 as default encoding for the
>>  browser.
>>  >
>>  > Please,
>>  is it possible to control the encoding used by a browser to
>>  display
>>  > an attached text file from
>>  XWiki server side?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  Thanks!
>>  >
>>  > Ricardo
>>  >
>>  > --
>>  > Ricardo Rodríguez
>>  >
>>  Research Management and Promotion Technician
>>  > Technical Secretariat
>>  >
>>  Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela
>>  (IDIS)
>>  > http://www.idisantiago.es
>>  >
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