Johannes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:22:03AM +0000, corvid wrote:
I know that Jorge finds a charset selection dialog where the user has to know what to enter to be insufficiently user-friendly, but I don't know a nice alternative, and this can go in the dillo-dev archives for anyone who wants it.
I never needed to switch the charset, but I noticed that firefox also has a dialog to do so. When exactly is this needed and why doesn't automatic detection work properly? Is it faulty webserver configuration?
People don't specify a charset, or put the wrong one. For me, it doesn't make much difference because it'll usually just be the quotation marks and dashes that don't show up properly, but I suspect it matters more for people using languages where the possible encodings are very different. bug#822 requested such a thing, giving http://www.ixbt.com as an example (which does not tell the browser that it's in windows-1251 encoding)