Character encodings

[pete.young]

Since the Blog links appeared on the homepage, I appear to be suffering from some Character Encoding problems and wondered if anyone else was seeing the same thing.

I have Firefox 14, and the basschat server appears to be including a Character Coding of Western(ISO8859-1), which causes the links to display like this:

[url="http://blog.basschat.co.uk/i-was-hitlers-bassist-part-one/"]‘I Was Hitler’s Bassist’ – Part One[/url]

[url="http://blog.basschat.co.uk/i-was-hitlers-bassist-starts-wednesday-on-the-basschat-blog/"]‘I Was Hitler’s Bassist’ – Starts Wednesday on the BassChat Blog[/url]

I can fix this temporarily by manually switching to UTF-8, but it only works on a page-by-page basis. If I set the default to UTF-8, it still happens (which is what makes me think that it's the server sending the ISO8859-1 setting along with the page).

If this is indeed what's happening, why doesn't the page include a character set which displays properly under ISO8859-1 and doesnt' require a switch to UTF-8?

[pete.young]

Anyone?

By the way, it seems to be happening with IE9 on Windows 7 as well.

[Silvia Bluejay]

Firefox 14.0.1 here too, same problem. Been ignoring it so far, can't be bothered to switch coding just for this website...

[jackers]

it's also happening to me on safari 5.1.7 on my mac.

[Hamster]

Yep - same on windows 7 / Chrome. I'll tell our resident spannerman.

[steve-bbb]

yes to all the above

plus my quoted profile name has now gone from steve-bbb to steve-bbb

edit - XP fully sp'd up with firefox 14.0.1

Edited August 22, 2012 by steve-bbb

[51m0n]

Because the pages are not encoded in the same charset as the server says....

Something is going to have to give