Content-Type Tag question

AndrewB · Post by **AndrewB** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:36 pm

Can I ask why the following tag is included in the html?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Doesn't this cause problems with encoding for some people if they are using a different encoding?

Post by **Thorsten** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:51 am

Hi Andrew,

if someone uses another encoding, then it is defined in the language file. Just look into the Polish language file, there's the east-european encoding set.

bye
Thorsten

AndrewB · Post by **AndrewB** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 4:22 pm

I am going to have some Polish translations of the entries as well as the english and german.

I think I will try just removing the meta tag

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

line from the html pages to see if that works for everyone.

Do you have any experience with this?

Post by **Thorsten** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 5:53 pm

Hi Andrew,

AndrewB wrote:Do you have any experience with this?

sorrily, I don't know how Browser are working without a given charset.

bye
Thorsten

AndrewB · Post by **AndrewB** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:16 pm

If anyone is interested...

I have made the following change to the english.php file which seems to work for english and polish (so far!)

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//$metaCharset 	= "iso-8859-1";
$metaCharset 	= "Windows-1250";