Re: VOA- utf-8, lang="en"

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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Mark Davis wrote:

> FYI, in Google we essentially ignore the language setting in the web page,
> because it is too often missing or wrong to be useful.

... and groups.google.com stubbornly ignores the encoding (charset)
of news articles and makes its own, stupid guesses:

<news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0608041849360.8202-100000@s5b004.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
has charset=ISO-8859-2.

But http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pl.test/msg/1fa7fa753aad46a2
assumes charset=ISO-8859-1.

<news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0608031649570.5191-100000@s5b004.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
has charset=ISO-8859-1.

But http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sci.lang/msg/eb55255e1925350f
assumes charset=UTF-8.

This is braindead!

-- 
Inept programmers are not fired by Google.
They must work at groups.google.com.

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