Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Character set for the HTML documentation

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:22

I just got the following email:
The Git documentation at
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html> is
encoded in ISO 8859-1, but it is being served with a content-type header
of "text/plain; charset=UTF-8".

The content-type header overrides the value declared in the <meta> tag
of the HTML document, so this causes browsers to render the
documentation incorrectly.

Apologies if this is a well known issue and you get a lot of mail like
this BTW, just don't LART me too hard. ;)
The fact that browsers behave this way is of course a bug, but it's a
common one.  Can we switch the documentation over to UTF-8, this is 2007
after all...?

	-hpa
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