Encoding of the front page

RussSchultz

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On IE on XP, the front page keeps being detected as encoded in GB2312 (Simplified Chinese). I get all sorts of strange characters, etc. None of the other pages do this. It doesn't happen in 2k.

Any ideas?
 
Yeah... you have a weird PC :)

Seriously though, I don't get this... this just happened? Still happens now?

Hmm... maybe Marco is doing some stuff that somehow erroneously slipped through.
 
It recently started happening. It might be because I installed chinese languages on my machine to test something else, but it hasn't affected any other websites.

(And yes, its just the front page)
 
This also happens to me. Every time I visit it auto-selects Chinese Simplified and the page is full of Chinese characters. I have to manually set it. This only started happening this week I think? I've had Chinese language support installed for a while so I don't think it's that.
 
Could be due to 'extended' characters being on the page. I noticed a few Copyright and Registered Trademark symbols in the text. They should probably be encoded with UTF-8 codes rather than as Extended ASCII.
 
It's because the front page is missing the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
or something like that in the <head> block. Should be easy to fix...
 
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