From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:31:55 GMT
Subject: Character set for the HTML documentation
Message-ID: <469D516B.6030806@zytor.com>

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