Re: Encoding Issue for .ly Files on CPDL

> On 3 Jun 2026, at 14:02, Gabriel Ellsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks very much for your help, Silvain, Hans, and Hans.
> 
> IIUC, what CPDL should do is to edit/adjust the HTTP response headers that CPDL’s server sends/returns to browsers.
> 
> Those HTTP response headers should include:
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> 
> Is all of the above correct?

I made a net search for “how to make http header indicate UTF-8”, and got results like:
https://community.smartbear.com/discussions/soapui_os/how-to-set-encoding-utf-8-in-request-post-/8818
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4279282/how-to-set-http-header-to-utf-8-using-php-which-is-valid-in-w3c-validator

> And just to confirm, should it be text/xml and not text/plain?

This link says you should have text/plain at least for MIME, and that application/xml supersedes text/xml.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/MIME_types/Common_types

There is also:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Content-Type

> On Tue, 2 Jun 2026, Hans Åberg wrote:
> Actually, I made a typo above: the suggestion says one in the Headers tab should add a new header named “Content-Type” (without the quotes) and set the value to “text/xml; charset=utf-8”. :-)