Bad Character Encodeing of www.cacert.org and CAcert emails

A users writes:

Could you this tag (at the end of this message) between this head tags of the french page(s) ?
This page is coded in UTF-8 but the browsers try to decode it using iso-8859-1 charset, which leads to dreadful looking.
Thank you in advance

<meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"content-type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\">

chris@sirona tmp $ telnet cacert.org 80

Trying 202.87.16.201...
Connected to cacert.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.cacert.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 09:50:49 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.9-1 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9-1
Set-Cookie: cacert=3a1dd53fdbba6cdc85f473a8b8a243eb; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

A users write

There may be Umlauts in emails sent via the contact form (see attached 
mail for an example), but there's no charset given, so the Umlauts are 
scrambled.
The most simple solution is probably to take the charset information 
sent by the browser and put it into the Content-Type header of the 
email.

Comments

The issue appears to be an obscure browser not honouring html entities properly.

ContentReviewTeam/case0034 (last edited 2008-05-22 22:17:06 by anonymous)