Re: chinese index, survey live

Jack Catchpoole wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've put up the Chinese index page on netbeans.org :
>
>    http://www.netbeans.org/index_zh.html
>
> Pretty cool!  Rob, maybe you could forward this to the
> Chinese speaking ppl that aren't on this list to check
> over.
>
Out of curiosity, is the encoding meta info set wrong, or
does Mozilla suck?  I get a page of ????'s.

Lots of little square boxes in Internet Explorer.  Looking
at the page source, I think the culprit is:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Internet Explorer will at least make a weird but often accurate
guess about the encoding if it's not set at all; but if the page explicitly
says it's UTF-8 (ASCII, which chinese is definitely not), the browser's
obligation is to try to shoehorn whatever it gets into the encoding it's
been told to use.

Is this a sourcecast thing we can turn off, or excise from the headers
somehow?

-Tim