[FM Discuss] UTF-8 stated but not used

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 18:40, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Edward,
>
> Is your browser set to UTF8?

Yes. I checked the pages I listed in other encodings including 8859-1, as noted.

> We've had this problem before, I think
> it's easy enough to fix...

Yup.

> L.
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:05, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Our pages claim to be in Unicode UTF-8, but some do not display as
>> such. For example,
>>
>> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ActivitiesGuideSugar_es/WebHome
>> �QU� ES SUGAR?
>> (Not in an encoding I recognize)
>> ¿QUÉ ES SUGAR?
>>
>> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour_de/WebHome
>> EINF�HRUNG
>> (Actually in 8859-1)
>> EINFÜHRUNG
>>
>> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CommandLineIntro_da/WebHome
>> Grundl�ggende Syntaks
>> (Actually in 8859-1)
>> Grundlæggende Syntaks
>> (Actually in 8859-1)
>>
>> I have not attempted to find them all.
>> --
>> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
>> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
>> http://www.earthtreasury.org/
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>
>
>
> --
> "There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and
> imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems,
> love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their
> Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake
> their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split
> infinitives and misspellings, but do they bubble and froth and slobber
> and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the
> tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them
> to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together
> for the sound-sex of it? Do they use language to seduce, charm,
> excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? I doubt
> it. They’re too farting busy sneering at a greengrocer’s less than
> perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think
> they’re guardians of language. They’re no more guardians of language
> than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dogkind."
> Stephen Fry
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-- 
Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://www.earthtreasury.org/