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  • From: Javier Candeira <javier AT candeira.com>
  • To: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: help <help AT ibiblio.org>, cc-es AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-es] Bad character encoding in cc-es mailing list archives
  • Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:22:08 +0100

Thanks!

- j

Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Sent to help AT ibiblio.org for possible diagnosis and fix.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 06:33 +0100, Javier Candeira wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> The archives for the cc-es mailing list show accents, eñes and other
>> special
>> characters brokenly:
>>
>> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-es/2006-December/001626.html
>>
>> The reason is this:
>>
>> The html in the document gives encoding as 8859-1...
>>
>> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>>
>> While the server head information claims they are UTF-8...
>>
>> kandinski@derive:~$ curl -I
>> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-es/2006-December/001633.html | grep
>> -i
>> Content-Type
>> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
>> Current
>> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
>> Speed
>> 0 20770 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>> 0
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <- *** VOILA! ***
>> kandinski@derive:~$
>>
>> What we see browsing the archives is the result of browsers trying to
>> interpret as UTF-8 special characters correctly codified as ISO-8859-1.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- javier
>>




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