Re: [BUGS] BUG #4279: Bad codepage in our web-site

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:03:49PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
> > > />
> >
> > You saw that in our CVS HTML file that is part of the source
> > distribution? That is the master copy.
>
> No, that's my point. When I look at the web page source, it's UTF-8.
> And since that's the only realistic way to have the framework document
> around the FAQ, it seems reasonable to me.
>
> > I see lots of FAQs in CVS that are not UTF8:
> >
> > FAQ.html: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
>
> This doesn't matter, because US-ASCII is a proper subset of UTF-8.
>
> > FAQ_brazilian.html: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> This doesn't need to change because the bottom range of Unicode was made
> the same as ISO 8859-1 in order to make the transition somewhat easier.
>
> > FAQ_polish.html: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
> > FAQ_russian.html: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=koi8-r">
> > FAQ_turkish.html: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso8859-9">
> >
> > Do they all have to be converted?
>
> Those three do, I expect. They sure look like it on the page. All
> sorts of "?" in there.

Well, something is converting them to UTF8 headings on our web site and
I thought the HTML encoding was converted at that stage.

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