On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:47 +0100, François Patte wrote: > The problem was solved when I looked to the html file produced: this > line was missing > > ~ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=utf-8"> > > though the pdf file was produced from latex with utf8 encoding. > > One mystery remains: why the default encoding for navigator (firefox), > or openoffice, is latin1? The default encoding for web browsing and serving, according to the HTTP specifications is iso-8859-1, anything different needs explicitly stating otherwise. The meta statement is one way to do that, and about the only choice you have if you open a file directly, rather than web serve it. If it is served, then the HTTP headers about content type overrule anything typed into the file itself (the meta statement is to be ignored). If you set your browser's default to something other than iso-8859-1 you'll have problems with rendering pages that are served correctly (i.e. iso-8859-1 written pages without a specific content type description about it), and that's an awful lot of web pages. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
