[ Adding our libstdc++ list ] On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Martin von Gagern wrote: > While browsing http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/ using Firefox, I > noticed some mojibake due to the fact that the page was interpreted as > iso-8859-15, my default charset, while it is actually meant to be utf-8. > The server does not add a charset parameter to its content-type header. > Neither does the document contain a corresponding meta tag. The document > does contain an xml header, but as the document is shipped as text/html, > not application/xhtml+xml, I believe the browser is correct to ignore that.
I looked into this, and believe the issue we do want to tackle is the HTML pages generated for libstdc++. For example, looking at libstdc++/doc/html/manual/index.html, at the end of the file we have <td align="center">\xc2\xa0</td><td align="right">\xc2\xa0... ...The GNU C++ Library\xc2\xa0</td> where I believe \xc2\xa0 is Unicode non-breaking space. Wouldn't it be better to issue HTML instead? Alternately, you could add <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> to the <head>...</head> section of the libstdc++ pages. Gerald
