tempestadept
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For, I think, some weeks now caravelgames site (including forum) keeps displaying for me by default as UTF-8 even though it's actually in Latin1. This messes up some characters like apostrophes and ellipsis (as a single character). I finally bothered to investigate this. Turns out that while HTML code contains correct content type

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

it gets overridden by

Content-Type:"text/html; charset=UTF-8"

in HTTP response headers. Looks like the server is misconfigured.
Oh, and by the way, it would be nice if timezone info on the server got updated. Timezones in Russia have changed 4 months ago and it's a little inconvenient to see post times on the forum shifted by 1 hour.

rman
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Oh my, not again!

I looked at it and it seems that this has already been “fixed”: both Content-Type and <meta> contain ISO 8859-1 now. However, Google Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu for some reason think that it is Windows-1252 (which is strange, but not a big deal, because these are mostly the same, except for some characters which are control codes in ISO 8859-1).

As a result, lots of posts with non-ASCII characters are now, once again, broken because they were encoded in UTF-8 and are now interpreted as ISO 8859-1.

It seems strange that Unicode got replaced with ISO 8859-1; to me it seems like a step backward.

tempestadept wrote: Oh, and by the way, it would be nice if timezone info on the server got updated. Timezones in Russia have changed 4 months ago and it's a little inconvenient to see post times on the forum shifted by 1 hour.

Wait, what? I thought that got fixed back when we were having the original encoding issue…

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tempestadept
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Seems like the post encodings aren't consistent here. This topic's initial post uses Latin1, and here's UTF8. Unicode is obviously better, I just didn't see that it was actually used here.
And the time is correct now.

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Yeah, it's not "fixed." Everything has always been ISO-8859-1, and it's not trivial to just make it all UTF-8, no matter how nice that might be. I'll be working on it... maybe... sometime. It's really not interesting or fun so when I don't have much time to work on stuff this doesn't jump out at me as something to do.

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