New submission from David Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Consider the web page:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/whatsnew/acks.html (the problem appears throughout the whatsnew document, but that page happens to be short and have more than one instance). On my browser, Safari 3.1.2 on Intel OS X 10.4.11, Martin von Löwis has his name corrupted, as does Lars Gustäbel. The problem seems to be because whilst the page is encoded in utf-8 the web server does not transmit a Content-Type header that specifies utf-8: $ curl -I http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/whatsnew/acks.html HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:51:22 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c mod_wsgi/2.0 Python/2.4.4 Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:58:18 GMT ETag: "12c008-1336-c6b00e80" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 4918 Content-Type: text/html Shouldn't that be "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"? Yeah, probably. Shouldn't the browser be using the meta tag in the HTML file itself? Probably, but your broken HTML is preventing Safari from parsing the <meta> tag correctly. Specifically: $ curl http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/whatsnew/acks.html | grep rel=.first. <link rel="first" href="whatsnew25.html" title='What's new in python 2.5' /> The title attribute of that link element is incorrect. It features a single-quote inside a single-quoted string. Oopsie. I don't think Safari should be so mean, but bad HTML is bad HTML. Taking a local copy and fixing that title attribute (by using double quotes for example) causes the page to render just fine. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 74560 nosy: drj, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: 2.5.2 whatsnew document corrupts names, by having broken HTML, at least on the Web. type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4085> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com