RE: xkcd: LTR

In this instance the web server is not returning an encoding (“Content-Type: text/html”), which is why I was curious to see that neither web browser picked up the UTF-8 hint in the XML prolog.
Chrome does detect UTF-8 for that page.

From: verdyp_at_gmail.com [mailto:verdyp_at_gmail.com] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 7:49 AM
To: Marc Durdin
Cc: John H. Jenkins; Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: xkcd: LTR

Not a bug of your machine or browser; this is a problem of the webserver in its metadata.
The transport layer indicates to the client another encoding in HTTP headers, and it prevails to what the document encodes.
In this case, the webserver should be able to transform the source document to match what it indicates in HTTP headers, or should better identidy its local file contents to send the correct HTTP header).

Send a bug report to the site admin to fix its web server settings, possibly per directory, or using a naming scheme for webpages that are encoded differently, e.g. "http://www.example.net/path/to/file.UTF-8.html" will request the content of a file named "file.UTF-8.html" with an explicit extension "*.UTF-8.html" which can be mapped by the server using another HTTP header for the effective UTF-8 encoding (instead of using cp-1252).

My opinion however is that new contents should always be encoded in UTF-8, and older contents may be linked to another effective archiving directory where it can be mapped to the older encoding without having to reencode the old content.

2012/11/26 Marc Durdin <marc.durdin_at_tavultesoft.com<mailto:marc.durdin_at_tavultesoft.com>>
Somewhat ironically, both Firefox and Internet Explorer 9, on my machine at least, detect this page is encoded with ISO-8859-1 and cp-1252 respectively, instead of UTF-8. It seems they both ignore the XML prolog which is the only place where the encoding is stated.
From: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org<mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org> [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org<mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org>] On Behalf Of John H. Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 1:15 AM
To: Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: xkcd: LTR

Or, if one prefers:

http://www.%e4%ba%95%e4%bd%9c%e6%81%86.net/XKCD/1137.html

On 2012年11月21日, at 上午10:22, Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit_at_apple.com<mailto:goldsmit_at_apple.com>> wrote:


http://xkcd.com/1137/

Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-)

Debbie



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