On 28 June 2012 01:17, Andres Perera <andre...@zoho.com> wrote: >> http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html > > > that page is encoded iso 8859-1, doesn't state so anywhere, breaks > with browsers configured to default to utf8 in the absence of encoding > qualifiers
$ telnet www.openbsd.org 80 Trying 142.244.12.42... Connected to www.openbsd.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET /papers/bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.openbsd.org HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:59:19 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:11:28 GMT ETag: "65f60c9352dee7ec594696cdfb681e86316269ef" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 32754 Content-Type: text/html <HTML> <BODY> ... Okay, this could transmit "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" but doesn't, but that's ok, we can do this on a page-by-page basis with a META tag, which ought to be ignored by browsers that don't understand it: $ diff -u 'bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html' 'bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html.new' --- bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html 2012-06-28 02:12:19.000000000 +0200 +++ bsdcan11-mandoc-openbsd.html.new 2012-06-28 02:07:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ <HTML> +<HEAD> +<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +<HEAD/> <BODY> <H1><A HREF="http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/schedule/events/230.en.html";>Mandoc in OpenBSD</A></H1> Generally speaking, I find that on misc@ the words "you should make" are taken far less seriously than even the most pitiful of diffs. regards, ropers
