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Item8520: localization; bad charset definitions for non english pages (in header and meta)

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Normal	Confirmed	Engine	FoswikiRender, I18N

Hi, I am working on bilingual site (english and polish).I set charset to iso-8859-2 on sites with the polish language. Everything works fine when tested on Opera or Google Chrome. However on Firefox the header is not recognized properly. Firefox recognizes such html page as encoded with iso-8859-1. I don't have IE so I was unable to test on it.

I compared the foswiki page header with recommended header for iso8859-2 and found the diffrences causing errors

I attached two files with good and bad charset definitions in header and meta

Regards, Arek

-- BioSmoothly - 13 Feb 2010

The server won't serve attached HTML documents to avoid some spam, but the files contain:

Good HTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="pl" lang="pl"><head>
<title> good charset</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2" />
<body>
witaj &#347;wiecie (Hello world)
</body>
</html>

Bad HTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="pl_PL" lang="pl_PL"><head>
<title> good charset</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=pl_PL.ISO-8859-2" />
<body>
witaj ¶wiecie (Hello world)
</body>
</html>

-- GeorgeClark - 16 Mar 2011

According to RFC3066, I'm hoping simply changing the underscore to a dash (pl_PL to pl-PL) will fix the lang attribute (the first 'pl' before the dash is the "primary language subtag", the rest is optional for the client). Or at least, that's my reading of it.

-- PaulHarvey - 16 Mar 2011

I've had to chicken-out of this. The change is trivial but I lack the time to test properly.

-- PaulHarvey - 01 May 2011

Deferring to 1.1.5. This needs someone with I18N experience to test.

-- GeorgeClark - 13 Dec 2011

Deferring again, to 1.2.

-- GeorgeClark - 05 Apr 2012

ItemTemplate edit

Summary	localization; bad charset definitions for non english pages (in header and meta)
ReportedBy	BioSmoothly
Codebase	1.0.9
SVN Range
AppliesTo	Engine
Component	FoswikiRender, I18N
Priority	Normal
CurrentState	Confirmed
WaitingFor
Checkins
TargetRelease	minor
ReleasedIn	1.2.0
CheckinsOnBranches
trunkCheckins
Release01x01Checkins

Topic attachments
I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
html	bad_charset.html	manage	0.4 K	13 Feb 2010 - 12:50	BioSmoothly	page with bad charset
html	good_charset.html	manage	0.3 K	13 Feb 2010 - 12:50	BioSmoothly	page with appropriate charset

Topic revision: r7 - 05 Apr 2012, GeorgeClark

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