Hi,
If you have both this HTTP header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
and this HTML element in the <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
Which one is supposed to take precedence (override the other)?
Thanks.
10  6308 
Newry <Ne***@nospam.com> wrote: If you have both this HTTP header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
and this HTML element in the <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
Which one is supposed to take precedence (override the other)?
The HTTP header.
Steve
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Newry wrote: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
and this HTML element in the <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
Which one is supposed to take precedence (override the other)?
Feel free to consult the authoritative RFC2616. Nothing that we say
here could possibly override that.
See also http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2 - also
appendix C to the XHTML/1.0 specification if you're interested in
XHTML.
(For HTTP transfers, the true HTTP header has priority over all other
sources. But that would be true or false no matter what anyone were
to say here about it. So be sure to consult the authoritative
sources. And nowadays even the popular browsers have caught up with
that.)
Newry wrote: Hi,
If you have both this HTTP header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
and this HTML element in the <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
The question is, why would you even bother including a pseudo-header
using a meta element, when you can just use the real thing? Meta
elements used with http-equiv should generally be avoided all the time
when the pages are being served over HTTP. Their only use would be if
the file is being loaded from the local file system or other location
where HTTP headers are unavailable, or are not properly configurable.
You may also be interested in reading "When Specifications Collide",
which discusses this issue a little more. http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1037398795&count=1
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Lachlan Hunt wrote: Newry wrote:
Hi,
If you have both this HTTP header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
and this HTML element in the <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
The question is, why would you even bother including a pseudo-header
using a meta element, when you can just use the real thing? Meta
elements used with http-equiv should generally be avoided all the time
when the pages are being served over HTTP. Their only use would be if
the file is being loaded from the local file system or other location
where HTTP headers are unavailable, or are not properly configurable.
You may also be interested in reading "When Specifications Collide",
which discusses this issue a little more.
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1037398795&count=1
Exactly. Not every server has this or that module loaded and/or compiled
into it. E.g, my host will not enable mod_expires, hence I have a
http-equiv expires "workaround".
Furthermore, I send my page's language via a Content-Language header,
yet Bobby complains I'm not specifying a language and insists I put
<HTML lang="en"> etc, in my coding.
Sort of flies in the face of what Alan Flavell just wrote re: RFC 2616.
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Peter1968 wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote:
You may also be interested in reading "When Specifications Collide", which
discusses this issue a little more.
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1037398795&count=1
Exactly. Not every server has this or that module loaded and/or
compiled into it. E.g, my host will not enable mod_expires, hence I
have a http-equiv expires "workaround".
It would be good if people would stop trying to find excuses for
failing to follow best-practice. Already CERT security alert
CA-2000-02 was counselling *not* to send pages out without an explicit
HTTP charset specification. And if there is one, it /has/ to be
correct, since it overrides all other sources of information, and
there will be severe problems if the other sources are incompatible
with it.
Along the lines of what Mark Nottingham says: if your provider does
not offer the features which you need for doing the job properly,
*complain loudly*.
Furthermore, I send my page's language via a Content-Language
header, yet Bobby complains I'm not specifying a language and
insists I put <HTML lang="en"> etc, in my coding.
Bobby is only (trying to) apply the WAI rules as published. So
that report stands or falls by what the WAI actually calls for.
Sort of flies in the face of what Alan Flavell just wrote re: RFC
2616.
I'm not sure which detail you're referring to here. The charset issue
is clear enough: a particular document instance is in one and only one
character encoding[1] - the HTTP and meta (and ?xml encoding) are all
ways of specifying that encoding.
But there are subtle differences between HTTP language attribute, and
HTML language attributes. They aren't necessarily identical (though
the examples might appear somewhat contorted). For example, a Latin
primer aimed at an English-speaking audience contains both English and
Latin content, but would be negotiated in HTTP as an English-language
document. It would be of little interest to someone who was genuinely
seeking a Latin *document*.
best regards
[1] modulo the detail that you can refer to ASCII as iso-8859-anything
or as utf-8 if it suits you to do so, since they're indistinguishable
at that level.
Alan J. Flavell wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Peter1968 wrote: Furthermore, I send my page's language via a Content-Language
header, yet Bobby complains I'm not specifying a language and
insists I put <HTML lang="en"> etc, in my coding.
Bobby is only (trying to) apply the WAI rules as published. So
that report stands or falls by what the WAI actually calls for.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-abbreviated-and-foreign
Checkpoint 4.3 of that also calls for servers to set content language.
I've asked quite a few people and the consensus I've gotten back is
that's what the W3C is trying to say here.
I've been at Watchfire for nearly a year to get them to update things.
Still, it has real bearing on this thread, I guess, and I'll butt out
about here.
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Peter1968 wrote: Bobby is only (trying to) apply the WAI rules as published. So
that report stands or falls by what the WAI actually calls for.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-abbreviated-and-foreign
The preamble to that, curiously, calls for one -or- the other:
Content developers should identify the predominant natural language
of a document's content (through markup or HTTP headers).
^^^^
Checkpoint 4.3 of that also calls for servers to set content language.
Curiously, neither 4.1 nor 4.3 say anything definite about emitting
content-language HTTP headers as such. What 4.3 is calling for is
that servers are configured to support content negotiation mechanisms:
that's a separate issue (which might lead the server to send a "Vary:"
header, but won't directly cause a Content-language header to be sent,
AFAIR).
I think Bobby is technically correct to report a violation of
checkpoint 4.3 itself if the HTML element does not have a "lang"
attribute (even though the wording of the preamble suggested that the
HTTP header would be an acceptable alternative, checkpoint 4.3 doesn't
actually allow it). Whether 4.3 is well formulated is a separate
discussion point, of course. However, this is only at priority 3.
If there is more than one language in the document, then a failure to
mark them up with HTML attributes wherever they occur would be a
violation of checkpoint 4.1, which is priority 1, on the other hand.
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