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#177 ignored charset attribute
When showing HTML files, Ilias in some way ignores the charset atrribute. Have a look at the Polish file "Co to jest TeX i LaTeX" in the repository. Shows strange characters when your browser is set to automatic recognition of encoding. If you force the browser to show it in ISO8859-2, it's correct. We don't want to force the users to change encoding manually though.
The same file saved to my hard disk and viewed with the same browser is shown correctly also in automatic mode. Checked on various browsers.
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At the very beginning of the project we agreed to work only on UTF-8 documents. Sorry you have to convert it or to look for other content.
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OK, no problem with converting, I was just worried about usability. Users (real-life tutors) don't have to understand what ISO8859-2 or UTF8 are all about, they just have a HTML file that works corrrectly on all browsers (set to "automatic" charset recongition), and suddenly it doesn't work here. All the LT4eLAna docs are of course UTF8, but we cannot control what initial formats we get.
But I understand that we ignore the problem, as we ignore the inconvertability of most PDF files, and focus on the set of documents we're working with now, with no regard to future usability. If yes, you can close :)
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It should help to leave out charset=UTF-8 in Content-Type response header in ILIAS
as Content-Type has higher preference than meta in page header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Conversion of HTML pages to UTF-8 should be no problem anyway.