utf-8 character problems at manifesto page

[Michael Hunger]

A commenter complained at the infoq article about SC2010 about the SC manifesto not handling special characters (esp. in Names and Cities).
http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/08/sc2010

Would please someone -> Paul? fix that?

Thanks, Michael

Here is the comment.

Where's the "well-crafted" manifesto page?
Aug 8, 2010 9:34 PM by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum
Hi,

in lack of a better place to complain: maybe somebody cares to fix the Manifesto for Software Craftsmenship. It won't display special characters like Umlauts (ÄÖÜäöü) properly. I find that highly embarassing for a site that claims to care for well-crafted software.

Debugging hint: The html source contains the correct meta tag

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

But your webserver is sending this in the header:

Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8

Which leads many browsers to choose UTF-8 over ISO-8859-1, thus the corrupted display.

Thanks,
Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

[Esko Luontola]

On Aug 12, 11:09 pm, Michael Hunger <mich...@passionate-

developers.org> wrote:
> Debugging hint: The html source contains the correct meta tag
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
>
> But your webserver is sending this in the header:
>
> Content-Type    text/html; charset=utf-8

Making it all UTF-8 would be better. The manifesto page contains some
Chinese characters which show up as "?".

[Paul Pagel]

Thanks for pointing out the problem.

It is more complicated than just changing the charset(it is now changed). In the spirit of a community of professionals, Li-Huan Lung has forked the repo and is working on providing us with a internationalization solution to the problem.

Thanks to Lihsuan for spending time and effort to help solve the problem, we should have something up soon.

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