At 11:04 PM +0100 1/5/08, Nisse Engström wrote:
The page encoding is determined by the HTTP
`Content-Type:´ header. Period. A <meta> element
may provide hints to a browser if the HTTP header
is missing (eg. when saving a page to disc). In the
presence of a `Content-Type:´ header, the <meta>
element should be completely ignored.
So, if one uses this --
<?php header('Content-Type: text/css; charset=UTF-8'); ?>
-- preceding everything else on a web page, and
also saves that page using UTF-8 encoding, then
it's certain that the page will be recognized as
UTF-8 across all modern browsers?
> And lastly, what's the best encoding to set your
browser? I have clients who are all over the
place with special windoze characters that appear
like garbage in my browser.
Set it to detect automatically, with a preference
for cp1252 (or windows-1252) which covers a lot of
western characters. cp1252 also has the nice property
of being compatible with ISO-8859-1, except that it
has some extra real characters where 8859-1 has control
characters.
Interesting that my browser (Safari) doesn't even
offer that choice, at least under that name. It
does offer ISO Latin, Mac OS Roman, UTF-8, and 34
other language-specific text encodings -- but not
1252.
Besides, while I know that the majority of
Internet users are windows challenged, I can't
bring myself to follow -- I'll stick with UTF-8.
:-)
Side note: Hopefully some day soon, M$ will stop
treating the global user as a
second-class-citizen in using PUNYCODE instead of
displaying characters (code-points) as intended
by the IDNS. I think the "homographic attack"
concern is basically a red herring that could be
easily solved (if it was really a problem) by
simply color coding mixed charset urls. Would
work for me.
I find it interesting that Safari doesn't show
PUNYCODE and the majority of Apple's profits came
from "other than US" sources last year -- perhaps
this is a result of end-user sensitivity. It's
nice to know that when everything else fails,
money always seems to work. :-)
In any event, thank again for your thoughts.
Cheers,
tedd
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