On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Russell Hires wrote:
> Is this the difference between the 7-bit character sets vs the 8-bit ones? I
> don't know how to fix it, but I'm wondering if that would be a useful amount
> of information for a possible fix...
Yeah, the 7-bit ones are defined as ASCII, and the rest are
implementation-dependent. What you see is the standard, which those pages
don't follow. If you made web pages containing raw non-7-bit characters,
some web users would see them as boxes or question marks too. 'man ascii'
if you have that man page. The proper way of encoding 'á' in HTML is
'á'; if you just include the raw character, it'll look incorrect
depending on the web server. Mine (thttpd) sends this header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
If no Content-Type is sent, and the client guesses wrong, you get the
boxes or question marks, or some incorrect character.
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