Character encoding problems with Firefox on 7.04

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 19:56 +0000, bill purvis wrote:

> (actually all on one line - not that it should matter).
> However, when I view the page with Firefox, I find that 
> it always switches to UTF-8 which renders my pound characters
> as this weird splodge. If I click on View->character-encodings
> it displays a menu and I can select "Western (ISO8859-1)"
> and then it displays correctly. However, when I move to
> a different page it always reverts to UTF-8. Why is it
> ignoring my <meta ...> command? How can I get it to
> default to ISO-8859-1?

Your application server may be sending the character encoding as a real
HTTP header. You can use Firebug to see the headers. Another header tool
is Live HTTP headers found here: http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/  I
believe a real content-type header will override the meta header in the
HTML HEAD section.

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