I believe the time has come (and probably was overdue) to switch the web pages to UTF-8.
Which actually should not require any hanges to contents since we have been generally using ä instead of รค and so forth. Applied and htdocs/ on gcc.gnu.org regenerated; spot tests all were fine (in fact, silenced a warning from validator.w3.org) and I have a thorough validation run going on (one page every 61s as not to be blocked by the server). Gerald Index: style.mhtml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/style.mhtml,v retrieving revision 1.118 diff -u -3 -p -r1.118 style.mhtml --- style.mhtml 25 Mar 2012 03:17:52 -0000 1.118 +++ style.mhtml 2 Nov 2012 22:51:54 -0000 @@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ <if <var-exists XHTML> <group -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > <group - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> + <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > @@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ </verbatim> <if <var-exists XHTML> <group - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rev="made" href="mailto:g...@gcc.gnu.org" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc.css" /> > <group - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rev="made" href="mailto:g...@gcc.gnu.org"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/favicon.ico"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gcc.css">