Re: Perl Unicode support

[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:47:55PM +0200, Fredrik Jervfors wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the web server supposed to tell the
> client which charset is used: Latin2 or UTF-8? [...]

You're perfectly right and understand the whole concept of encodings.

What I'm arguing with Rich is the following situation:

X writes a homepage in French, using either latin1 or utf8 encoding (but
mentions this encoding properly), and of course he uses all the french
letters, including e.g. è (e with grave accent).

Y is sitting in Poland for example, using a system configured to use a
latin2 locale by default. Latin2 lacks e with grave accent. Y visits the
homepage of X with some popular graphical web browser.

What should happen?

Rich says that his browser must (or should?) think in latin2 and hence drop
the è letters, maybe replace them with unaccented e or question marks or
similar.

I say that his browser mush show è correctly, it doesn't matter what its
locale is.



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