Locale/UTF8 problem in firefox

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Sep 5 04:49:11 UTC 2007


Andrej Marjan wrote:
> Does your program tell the browser that the page is in utf-8? IIRC by default, 
> Firefox will interpret pages with no character set info as latin-1.
> 
> The best place to set it is in the HTTP headers, but you can also add a meta 
> tag with the information.

   Yeah, one of the things I looked into when trying to localize the 
program. :/

<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
	...
</head>

   Thanks!

Madi
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