Re: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 01:28:32 EDT

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    James Kass wrote on 09/26/2003 01:46:43 AM:

    > But, this simply isn't the case with Doug Ewell's web pages. Doug's
    > pages are properly encoded using the world's standard for text
    > encoding and properly tagged. The server isn't performing any
    > conversion, it's just adulterating the content of the web pages
    > by adding an incorrect protocol resulting in the display of
    > mojibake.

    Doug's server may be doing the wrong thing, but that isn't a
    counterargument to the general principle of whether the browser should
    believe what the server says or what the document says about the encoding.
    That was the question to which I and, I think, Jon were responding.

    Peter



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