[Techtalk] Fixing up live.linuxchix.org

Wim De Smet kromagg at gmail.com
Fri May 27 19:34:31 EST 2005


On 5/26/05, Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005, Listpig wrote:
> > Actually, I don't find that entry.
> 
> Do you find it on the snapshot? It's now gone from the main site, so for
> this discussion
> 
> I get Shoshannah's rendering in Hebrew: this is probably a Content-type
> nastiness. From what I understand, the problem is this:
> 
>  - the spec says "when the HTTP headers say one type and the page
>    another, trust the headers"
>  - HTTP headers are more fiddly to set AND Apache sets a default one to
>    ISO8859-1 (which doesn't include Hebrew)
> 
> I probably need to check for it and remove and put in a meta tag with
> the right encoding (UTF-8).
> 
> -Mary

I think this might simply be solved by putting a lang attribute on the
enclosing block. Firefox does render the hebrew text though.

greets,
Wim


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