On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:17:22 -0400 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > Which vera font? I just looked up http://google.gr/ in Firefox & pasted the > > text into a terminal using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono & don't see any missing > > letters. Nor do I if I set the font to Bitstream Vera Sans or Serif, or > > Bitstream Charter > > i don't recall. the date on the original conversion from .ttf is 2005. > > > Odd thing is if I use hget or curl to get the page I get a lot of nulls. > > The page is encoded in utf-8 so I don't know what the google.gr servers > > might be doing. > > ; hget http://google.gr/ > <!doctype html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" > content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7"> > > i'm pretty sure that ISO-8859-7 != utf-8. I guess that's server-side mucking about based on user-agent not reporting utf-8 capability or something stupid. Firefox page info feature reports the page as utf-8, and on inspection of the source: <!doctype html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> I wonder if there's some 'prefered encoding' message the UA can send to the server. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
