Ideas to get around a Character Encoding mismatch

Question

I get this validation warning when I try and validate my page.

The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the element (utf-8). I will use the value from the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) for this validation.

Here is the encoding set for the file:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

If I try and use characters like ĉĵŝĝ (iso-8859-3 compatible) they are rendered incorrectly. I think this is an issue with the server in my college because it is using the version one of the Latin encoding (iso-8859-1).

Is there a way I can get round this (if the problem lies with the encoding set with the college's server)?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can also set this option in your .htaccess file

<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|xhtml|php)$">
    AddDefaultCharset utf-8
</FilesMatch>

That way, all the files with the above extensions will be served with utf-8 instead of iso-8859-1

Bye

Answer 2

Saluton, you could try .xhtml. Maybe the college's server then uses another header. The other way is to use HTML entities for the Esperanto letters &#...;.

As the HTTP headers are normative, and not the HTML meta, you are stuck when you cannot change the server's config.

Another solution proposes a local directory for your .html with a httpd.conf file.