Problems with Apache and special characters

Michael Fesser wrote:

> The whole situation with the meta-charset-thing is rather paradox: The
> information about the used encoding is stored inside the document, so
> the UA has to decode the document first to know how to decode it ...

The HTML4.01 spec says:

| The META declaration must only be used when the character
| encoding is organized such that ASCII-valued bytes stand
| for ASCII characters (at least until the META element is
| parsed). META declarations should appear as early as
| possible in the HEAD element.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset...-char-encoding

See also news:c5jjd9$2elhn$1@ID-114100.news.uni-berlin.de .

(Sorry, I don't know how best to refer to threads in groups-
beta (spit). That's the message-id of the first article.)

--
Jock

.oO(Tony Marston)

>Not if you supply that information on an HTTP header, as in:-
>
>header('content-type:text/html; charset=UTF-8');

That's how it's supposed to be. If I do it correctly in the server's
response header I don't need that meta-thing anymore.

Micha

.oO(John Dunlop)

>See also news:c5jjd9$2elhn$1@ID-114100.news.uni-berlin.de .
>
>(Sorry, I don't know how best to refer to threads in groups-
>beta (spit). That's the message-id of the first article.)

Then use the "old" Google Groups. ;)

http://groups.google.com/groups?thre....uni-berlin.de

Interesting thread BTW.

Micha