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| From | "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: A proposal to handle file encodings |
| Date | 2012-11-24 00:11 +0100 |
| Organization | LUGA |
| Message-ID | <slrnkb00l8.jbt.hjp-usenet2@hrunkner.hjp.at> (permalink) |
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On 2012-11-23 18:21, Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Roedy Green schrieb: >> The HTML encoding is incompetent. You can't read it without knowing >> the encoding. Not true in practice. Almost all encodings used in the real world are some superset of ASCII, and you only need to recognize ASCII characters to find the relevant meta tag. >> It is just a confirmation. Thankfully the encoding comes >> in the HTTP header -- a case where meta information is available. [...] > Scenario 2: > - HTTP returns mimetype=text/html; charset=<encoding> > fetched from the HTML file meta tag. Which web server does this? I think CERN httpd did, back in the 1990's, but I don't think any of the current crop of servers does, at least not without some extra plugins. Normally the charset is taken from the server config. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Fluch der elektronischen Textverarbeitung: |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Man feilt solange an seinen Text um, bis | | | hjp@hjp.at | die Satzbestandteile des Satzes nicht mehr __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | zusammenpaßt. -- Ralph Babel
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A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-22 13:36 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2012-11-22 23:36 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-22 17:20 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-22 20:25 -0500
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-22 19:47 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-22 21:28 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-24 15:51 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-25 10:18 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-25 18:05 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-27 19:51 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-29 02:22 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-12-02 13:02 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-12-02 19:36 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-12-02 23:52 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-12-02 23:08 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 13:13 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-25 18:07 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-23 16:33 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-23 09:02 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-23 19:21 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-24 00:11 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-24 00:53 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-24 09:13 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-24 06:50 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-25 10:07 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-11-25 11:06 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-27 19:28 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-24 06:42 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-25 09:57 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 15:09 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 15:06 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-11-23 16:43 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-24 01:02 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-25 14:36 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-11-25 16:51 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-25 17:54 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-26 02:03 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-26 02:20 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-26 02:46 +0000
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