From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Character set for the HTML documentation Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:55 -0700 Message-ID: <469D516B.6030806@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 18 01:32:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAwWZ-0007Yk-7B for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:32:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762424AbXGQXcF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:32:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758430AbXGQXcE (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:32:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57278 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757402AbXGQXcD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:32:03 -0400 Received: from mail.hos.anvin.org (c-67-169-144-158.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.144.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6HNVxdA021209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:32:00 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (tazenda.hos.anvin.org [172.27.0.16]) by mail.hos.anvin.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6HNVxkU006399; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:59 -0700 Received: from tazenda.hos.anvin.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tazenda.hos.anvin.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6HNVvL8005108; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:58 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/3689/Tue Jul 17 05:02:12 2007 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I just got the following email: > The Git documentation at > 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 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