Re: xkcd: LTR

Not a bug of your machine or browser; this is a problem of the webserver in
its metadata.
The transport layer indicates to the client another encoding in HTTP
headers, and it prevails to what the document encodes.
In this case, the webserver should be able to transform the source document
to match what it indicates in HTTP headers, or should better identidy its
local file contents to send the correct HTTP header).

Send a bug report to the site admin to fix its web server settings,
possibly per directory, or using a naming scheme for webpages that are
encoded differently, e.g. "http://www.example.net/path/to/file.UTF-8.html"
will request the content of a file named "file.UTF-8.html" with an explicit
extension "*.UTF-8.html" which can be mapped by the server using another
HTTP header for the effective UTF-8 encoding (instead of using cp-1252).

My opinion however is that new contents should always be encoded in UTF-8,
and older contents may be linked to another effective archiving directory
where it can be mapped to the older encoding without having to reencode the
old content.

2012/11/26 Marc Durdin <marc.durdin_at_tavultesoft.com>

> Somewhat ironically, both Firefox and Internet Explorer, on my machine
> at least, detect this page is encoded with ISO-8859-1 and cp-1252
> respectively, instead of UTF-8. It seems they both ignore the XML prolog
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> *From:* unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] *On
> Behalf Of *John H. Jenkins
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 November 2012 1:15 AM
> *To:* Unicode Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: xkcd: LTR****
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> Or, if one prefers:****
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> http://www.%e4%ba%95%e4%bd%9c%e6%81%86.net/XKCD/1137.html****
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> On 2012年11月21日, at 上午10:22, Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit_at_apple.com> wrote:*
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> http://xkcd.com/1137/
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> Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-)****
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Received on Mon Nov 26 2012 - 14:54:49 CST