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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