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Encoding problem with web version of the user manual

From
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Jul 10, 2007, 12:49 UTC
Message-ID
<200707101449.01667.johan@herland.net>

The current online version of the user manual at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html seems to have some encoding problems. The document itself is in ISO-8859-1, and it even states so in a meta-tag. However, the server says "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" (which takes precedence, according to the spec). The end result is that the document looks like crap in most/all browsers (I've tested with Konqueror, Opera and Firefox). Not sure if any other documents are affected. The git manual page at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git.html (and other git manual pages) works correctly, since it's actually in UTF-8 format, and the HTTP header is therefore correct.

Have fun!
...Johan
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  1. Johan HerlandJul 10, 2007

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