Re: First stupid post of the year. [SOLVED]

On Sat, January 5, 2008 4:04 pm, Nisse Engström wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 01:08:13 -0500, tedd wrote: > >> At 1:41 AM +0100 1/5/08, Nisse Engström wrote: >>>On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:16:54 -0500, tedd wrote: >>> >>>> At 10:33 AM +0100 1/4/08, Nisse Engström wrote: >>>>>On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:39:36 -0500, tedd wrote: > NOTE: Richard Lynch tells us that (some versions of) > Internet Explorer, under certain circumstances, ignore > the `Content-Type:´ header and that a <meta> element is > necessary to make it guess the encoding correctly. I > don't know about this, but I tend to believe him. I'm WAY behind on emails, but thought I'd chime in here, in case somebody wants to try to find it... I no longer have access to the SOAP service that was providing the data that was causing the problem, so I can't give a URL that will demonstrate this easily. But I can add that the HTML output (required by my former boss) was SO BAD that it didn't even begin to validate and was throwing IE into quirks mode. So, having a header() and being in quirks mode in IE 6 (5?) and not having a META tag for the charset, and having mixed charsets (or whatever they are) on a page was causing this issue. The actual characters were a pronunciation guide to "Medici" as well as having "Medici" written with diacritial marks in another part of the page. You can snag the output from answers.com (the provider of no-longer-available SOAP service) if you really want to play with this. Then you'd have to wrap their content up in some truly disgusting non-validating HTML and re-present it as your own content. Putting in the META tag forced IE to use UTF-8 and make it work. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?