January 8, 2003
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Since the Xanga .net move-over, I’ve been noticing a lot of Chinese characters interspersed within what should be English-language ‘blogs.
This is only in Chimera, which is odd, since it should be the same as Mozilla. Mozilla doesn’t show these errant Chinese characters, however.
I’d seen it only once or twice in the past few days, so I thought it was some kind of one-off error, but now I see it all over the place.
I can only assume that it’s related to the fact that Xanga doesn’t let the browser know what language the page uses, so the browser has to make something up. For some reason Chimera is assuming I want to see Chinese.
Chimera doesn’t let you set the default encoding, even in user.js. Sigh.
Comments (2)
Hmm… The .NET stuff shouldn’t send HTTP encoding headers to your browser, so it should intrepret those characters as it sees fit. What I think is happening is those characters are MS Word apostrophes encoded in Windows-1252 (because people cut and paste from an external source like Word), and then interpreted as UTF-8 by your browser, which converts them to foreign characters.
Yah, ‘zactly.
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