Thank you Inger!!!

...and thank you CC!

Yep, exactly. Hopefully, these links will help:

http://www.webstandards.org/learn/artic … c/dec2002/

http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset

http://www.w3.org/International/questio … ss-charset

The meta tag is just a fallback in case the server doesn't send character encoding info in the http header. For others reading these links who don't know any better, don't use an xml declaration with xhtml, or your pages will be rendered in quirks mode in IE, which you want to avoid. Well, unless you're actually serving your pages as xhtml, in which case they won't show up in IE at all, so quirks mode won't be a problem.

EDIT: Also, Opera has an info panel which will tell you the encoding specified by the http header.

Thanks, Cary. It seems a bit over my head, but I'll read it carefully in the morning. It's past midnight here now...

I may have to get back to you with more questions.

Currently, your server has this (according to Firebug) :



Pages using those encodings should therefore be served just fine. It's when you use something else, such as the us-ascii, that things get weird.

I think I have to check out Firebug and what it can tell me. I wasn't aware that it would know the settings of the server I'm using. The server is located in Norway, so that explains why it won't have the us-ascii.

This is just some info the server sends the browser. I have no idea why. However, in Firebug you can find this by clicking the "Net" tab. Then click on "HTML" below it. You may have to first activate the Net tab if you've never tried it before, and will most likely need to reload the page before anything will show up in Firebug's main window.

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