Hi all,
I followed the recent thread on Unicode output, but I still have a question. When
writing static XHTML files, I use
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
to indicate the character set. This works fine.
But when generating output, this method does not work. I have to use:
print $q->header(-type=>'text/html', -charset=>'utf-8');
print qq{<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
[...]
Using
print $q->header;
without parameters results in incorrect display of 8-bit characters.
AFAIK, my ISP's Apache webserver serves HTML files with the standard text/html header,
i.e. without a charset specified. Why do I have to specify the charset in the header
when generating pages with Perl/CGI? Why doesn't the meta tag suffice?
Thanks,
Jan
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