On 2012-06-28, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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:
IMO if it's worth doing this at all, it needs doing to *all* pages that need it, in one go, consistently. Anything else is likely to be way too much pain for the translators.
