[MPlayer-mirror] Re: PLEASE change charset=iso-8859-1

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Dec 8 10:07:23 CET 2005


On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:15:20AM +0100, ewa-be at klub.chip.pl wrote:
> 
> Prease try to display (in Firefox) Tools / Page info:
> 
> URL: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news-pl.html
> 
> Render Mode: Standards compliance mode
> Source: Memory Cache
> Encoding: ISO-8859-1
> Size: 121.83 KB (124753 bytes)
> 
> Meta:
> Content type 		text/html; charset=iso-8859-2
> Content-Language	en
> 
> Browser gets different charset info!!!!!!!!

OK, now I understand what the problem is.  Apparently the web servers
are (mis)configured to send charset info in the HTTP headers, which
overrides the information in the <meta> tag of the page's content.

Everybody, please fix your webserver configuration not to do this.

Diego




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