Page encoding

[mproud]

Today's front page features some non-ASCII text. That's fine, however, I don't see where in the HTML it lists the encoding for the page. So Safari guesses Unicode but the page happens to be in ISO-Latin. So Safari users (which are probably a few of us) get noticeable <?> icons!

So I'd like to ask: would you be able to define the encoding set for the website? It can't be too hard to prepend an xml declaration with the encoding (as all good XHTML should have or specifying a meta tag like <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US">. Understandably, there are more than a few pages on this site, but even just the front page and future articles would be a blessing. And the action would certainly put this bug to rest.

 

[mproud]

If you use PHP, you can echo back the xml declaration instead to get around the potential validation error.

 

[crazzyeddie]

Yes that has been bothering me lately. I wouldn't think it would be too hard to make sure the site displays correctly on the #1 browser for the site...

 

[Doctor Q]

Good suggestion. In the meantime, we fixed the news story.

 

[arn]

Today's front page features some non-ASCII text. That's fine, however, I don't see where in the HTML it lists the encoding for the page. So Safari guesses Unicode but the page happens to be in ISO-Latin. So Safari users (which are probably a few of us) get noticeable <?> icons!

So I'd like to ask: would you be able to define the encoding set for the website? It can't be too hard to prepend an xml declaration with the encoding (as all good XHTML should have or specifying a meta tag like <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US">. Understandably, there are more than a few pages on this site, but even just the front page and future articles would be a blessing. And the action would certainly put this bug to rest.

will fix this if I can figure it out.

arn