Re: Unicode and html - help for simple web site

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

>> Interestingly, Mozilla identifies the encoding (charset) of
>> [ Warning: Very slow! Read without images! ]
>> http://www.apple.com.ge/contacts.html
>> as Windows-1251 because of the Russian *comments*.
>
> So it does!

Google, which is broken in many ways, thinks it is ISO-8859-5
and puts a <meta ... charset=ISO-8859-5> into the cached version:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.apple.com.ge/contacts.html&strip=1

> Worryingly, when auto charset recognition was turned off, the encoding
> was reported as utf-8: but surely these strings of cp1251 bytes could
> not be valid utf-8? !!

UTF-8 is _your_ default, it seems.

.

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