Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PHPWiki accent support

[Christian R. R. <ki...@as...>]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> PhpWiki specifies the charset in a <meta http-equiv> tag
> in the HTML headers on each and every page:
>
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> As you note, the charset currently is not specified in the HTTP headers.
> If that is causing problems with some browsers (is it?), that's easy enough
> to fix (we should probably fix that anyway).

It doesn't break any browser that _looks for_ Content-Type _and_ supports
Latin-1, which probably makes this a non-issue. There could be browsers
that ignore the META tags and thus need the HTTP headers, but since META
is defined in everything since HTML2.0 I deem these browsers as broken.
Your point is taken.

> I suppose entitizing upon output as you suggest doesn't hurt anything,
> but it still seems unnecessary to me.

Apparently (and to me, surprisingly), you're right (as far as you set
Content-Type, which we do). It's probably just one of those pedanticisms
you acquire over time. :-)

> (I know there have been many requests for multi-byte character support,
> but that's not an easy fix.   I think that pretty much requires switching
> to using unicode/UTF-8 internally, and this won't be practical without
> unicode support compiled into PHP and its regexp libraries.)

And the database, if it does string matching, additionally (using LIKE, ~
and whatnot).

Take care,
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