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Re^3: PerlMonks main page: garbled character encoding

by LanX (Saint)
on Mar 22, 2021 at 14:36 UTC ( [id://11130128]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: PerlMonks main page: garbled character encoding
in thread PerlMonks main page: garbled character encoding

I think your browser does a better guessing when charset is missing in the headers.

My guess:

There are some Apache settings to serve the "Monastery Gates" better to bots which are not up to date.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

PS: Pale Moon looks interesting. Would be nice to know if it still supports the mozrepl add-on. This would also give WWW::Mechanize::Firefox a lifeline.

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Re^4: PerlMonks main page: garbled character encoding (pale moon)
by hippo (Bishop) on Mar 22, 2021 at 15:39 UTC
    I think your browser does a better guessing when charset is missing in the headers.

    In all honesty I suspect it is just luck. Under Tools->Preferences->Content->Fonts & Colours->Advanced->Fallback Character Encoding I have "Default for Current Locale" set. The $LANG is en_GB.UTF-8 but viewing the not-logged-in Monastery Gates the content encoding under View->Character Encoding is "Western", ie. Latin-1. But under "View Page Info" it is "windows-1252". Make of that what you will.

    Pale Moon looks interesting.

    It is indeed. I've been using it for the past 11 months and it is, in general, really very good - like how Firefox used to be before they canned all the useful stuff and broke most of the add-ons. I've not knowingly used mozrepl so can't comment on that.


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