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era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:25:00 -0400

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Bug: UTF8 does not display correctly

era — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:23:00 -0400

If you require input to be UTF8, you should also serve it back as UTF8 The referenced entry contains a bit of background. Anyway, I was trying to create an entry with a body which contained the letter lowercase a with a circle on top ("Angstrom", "Swedish o") and the post was getting rejected. I finally managed to get it accepted by typing in the raw Unicode for this character, which displays as ÃÂ¥ in Latin-1 (that's uppercase A with a tilde accent, and a Yen currency symbol). But now that I view the page in Latin-1, that's still how it displays. (And the UTF-8 in this entry displays as roughly AfAY, i.e. the same with a "franc" currency sign and an uppercase A with a circonflex accent in between the two others.) The server should be configured to serve the pages as UTF-8, and/or the served pages should have a http-equiv header identifying the character set of the content (but this is not widely supported -- I believe it's disabled in Apache by default, and on the client side at least Mozilla didn't use to obey it). Update: It seems that this is merely a bug in my browser. It appears to ignore the header which is sent correctly from the server as it should. HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:09:09 GMT^M Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora)^M Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=1dae828430a5d71938409c99ddf93897; path=/; expires=Mon, 25-Apr-2005 12:09:09 GMT^M Connection: close^M Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"^M ^M de.lirio.us :: : entries filed under { delirioussiteblog } Tagged by era under blog, deliriousbugs.worksforme, erablog, rubric_0.09, 20060619-0123,

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Bug: UTF8 does not display correctly