From: "Skating Jim" <skatingjim@xxxxxxxxx> > I agree with your distinction between what Apache does > and how the browser responds to it. Sorry for the > inaccuracy on my part. > > The basis for my comment is that the Apache > documentation for AddDefaultCharset says: > > "This should override any charset specified in the > body of the response via a META element, though the > exact behavior is often dependent on the user's client > configuration." > > Mozilla 1.7.12 and Opera 8.51 give priority to the > HTTP charset encoding and therefore comply with the > "should" statement in the Apache documentation. IE6.0 > gives priority to the Content-Type meta element in the > HTML head instead. > Hmm, strange. I have seen that if I use the charset ISO-8859-2 in a meta tag in an xhtml file, IE 6 uses the ISO-8859-1 charset specified in the HTTP headers even though I don't want this. > Unfortunately, taking the advice of the Apache > documentation prevents the more compliant browsers > from correctly rendering the content from a given > server using the AddDefaultCharset directive unless > that same charset encoding is used across the entire > site. Although Apache is not responsible for this, > compliance with the "should" statement in its > documentation is. > > I think the Apache documentation should not recommend > overriding the meta element, because what's in the > meta element is most likely to be correct. Does this > make sense or am I still off target? > Yes I also think that the prefered charset should be the one specified in the meta tag, especially in xhtml files, because they are a kind of XML files and I know that the XML files should be able to have the charset specified inside. Teddy --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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