ie=utf-8 works fine On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chad Brown<yand...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > ; 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. > > Accept-Charset is the http header that you want, but to do it `right' you > probably want to muck about with http's q-value weighting system. The > shorter form is that you'll have to tell the server you're ok with UTF, or > it'll fall back to it's best-guess techniques, with the default fallback of > iso-8859. > > *Chad >
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