Re: [PHP-BUG] Bug #69266 [NEW]: character encoding issues on people.php.net

[email protected] wrote:

> From:             cmb
> Operating system: n/a
> PHP version:      Irrelevant
> Package:          Website problem
> Bug Type:         Bug
> Bug description:character encoding issues on people.php.net
> 
> Description:
> ------------
> Apparently, character encodings are mixed up on people.php.net.
> See, for instance, <https://people.php.net/?page=16>, where the
> name of "Johannes SchlÃŒter" is UTF-8 encoded, while the name of
> "Peter HÌwe" is not (the Ì is substituted by a REPLACEMENT
> CHARACTER).
> 
> Furthermore the Content-Type of the document is specified as
> "text/html" only (without a charset), so contemporary browsers are
> supposed to assume UTF-8, while older browsers might assume
> another character encoding.

While <http://news.php.net/php.webmaster/20909> displays the email
correctly as UTF-8, my Thunderbird 31.5.0 fails, due to the missing
Content-Type header field (see #66733[1]).  Is that only me?

[1] <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66733>

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Christoph M. Becker