From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Character set for the HTML documentation
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469D516B.6030806@zytor.com> (raw)
I just got the following email:
> The Git documentation at
> <http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html> is
> encoded in ISO 8859-1, but it is being served with a content-type header
> of "text/plain; charset=UTF-8".
>
> The content-type header overrides the value declared in the <meta> tag
> of the HTML document, so this causes browsers to render the
> documentation incorrectly.
>
> Apologies if this is a well known issue and you get a lot of mail like
> this BTW, just don't LART me too hard. ;)
The fact that browsers behave this way is of course a bug, but it's a
common one. Can we switch the documentation over to UTF-8, this is 2007
after all...?
-hpa
next reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 23:31 H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-18 2:02 ` Character set for the HTML documentation Junio C Hamano
2007-07-18 5:26 ` Geoff Richards
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