Topic: Help needed

As some of you might know, in order for a browser (or any other application that consumes web pages) to render a page properly, it needs to know how the text on that page is encoded and what content-type it has. There are two ways to send this information to the browser.

1. Send an HTTP header.
2. Include a meta tag in the head of the page.

I believe the W3C recommends doing both, but the information on this is a bit conflicting. I'm guessing the meta tag is there only to support really old (or weird) browsers. We would like to get rid of the meta tag in PunBB 1.3 (it solves a couple of problems). To confirm this, I've setup a small page at

http://punbb.org/cttest.php

Please go there and confirm that the header text reads Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn regardless of which encoding you choose in the drop-down. We've already confirmed that it works in the following browsers:

IE6 and 7
Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
Safari 1.3 and 2.0
Lynx

So, really, we're only interested in people who have access to other browsers. Please post your results in this topic.

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Works perfectly in Konqueror 3.3.1-5.8

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Works in Opera 9.10 [Mac OS X].

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Works in Opera 9.02 under WinXP

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Opera 9.10 Windows XP ok.

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IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 [wine (linux); windows binary]
Opera 9.10 [native linux binary]
Dillo 0.8.5 [native linux binary]

echo "deadram"; echo; fortune;

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As confirmed, works in FF 2 and IE6, of course. To test in exotic ones, you might want to post this on a *nix PHP dev list, or a exotic (Amiga, handheld, etc.) dev ML to have people test it.

The http header supersede the html meta tag. However, being in the source of the html, help some people debug things, confirm it's unicode, etc. However, if that's trigger a bug (I'm interested by the way, I've never heard such a thing, and Wikipedia doesn't seems to have that issue) it most certainly can be lost.

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All Work as described on Win2k in
IE 5.5
Phoenix Firebird 0.7
FireFox 1.0.6

TwoHawks
Love is the Function
No Form is the Tool

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ff2.0.0.1
Konqueror3.5.5

both on Ubuntu6.10 work fine.

~James
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Works flawlessly in:

Galeon 2.0.2
Kazehakase 0.3.8
Epiphany 2.16.1

All of the above are Gecko-based, so I'm not sure why they'd differ from Firefox, but I figured I'd try anyway.

Amaya 9.51 displays the page fine for "none", but unfortunately I'm not sure how to choose & submit the other two options. All the editing functions are getting in the way. tongue

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http://browsershots.org/website/http:// … cttest.php

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and does my link help?

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it would help if they could have changed selection of the combo box with every screen shot.

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Amaya 9.54 works for me. (Changing the box and double clicking the submit button worked for me, pogenwurst.)

Also, Camino, OmniWeb, and Shiira all work on Mac OS X (Camino uses Gecko, and the other two use WebKit, like Safari).

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MadHatter wrote:

it would help if they could have changed selection of the combo box with every screen shot.

do not know what you mean?!?

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As well as Firefox, which you've done...
OK in Konqueror 3.4.2 (using Mandriva Linux)
OK in Opera 9.10 (x11; Linux i686; U; en)

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kierownik wrote:
MadHatter wrote:

it would help if they could have changed selection of the combo box with every screen shot.

do not know what you mean?!?

We're testing the different values for the combo box on that page, not watching the contents change over time (like your link seems to do).