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Bug 375161 - Online docs don't display utf-8 Character Set correctly
Online docs don't display utf-8 Character Set correctly
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Documentation
2.0.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Josh Sled
Chris Lyttle
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-14 16:14 UTC by Doug Latornell
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:16 UTC
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Description Doug Latornell 2006-11-14 16:14:14 UTC 
Pages from the English Help Manual and Concepts Guide in the 2.0 section of http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml don't properly display their Unicode (UTF-8) character set in Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (PPC).  

Example: http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/ has many capital A characters with circumflex (^) accents in the navigation areas when it loads.  Manually changing to Unicode (UTF-8) character set in Firefox (View -> Character Encoding) produces a correct display.

I suspect that the problem is that the pages are missing their Document Type Declaration (<!DOCTYPE...> on the 1st line).

All pages of the Concepts Guide that I have read (1st 8 chapters) exhibit the same problem.

Other information:
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2006-11-15 10:35:22 UTC 
I think that's a problem of the http server, i.e. the configuration of apache. There was some issue that was solved by manually forcing an iso-8859-1 encoding of all pages served; however, this breaks down once utf-8 pages are being served. 

In any case, this only concerns the on-line version of the documentation, doesn't it? The installed documentation probably runs fine.
Comment 2 Doug Latornell 2006-11-15 10:47:51 UTC 
You are probably correct, Christian.  I have not yet installed the gnucash-doc package, so my report only concerns the on-line version of the docs.
Comment 3 Josh Sled 2006-11-15 14:34:12 UTC 
The Content-Type header says "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".  The page contains a <meta/> tag with "text/html; charset=UTF-8".  Which does FireFox believe...?  Probably the former...
Comment 4 Andreas Köhler 2006-11-16 10:37:26 UTC 
So what is/was the reason not to use "AddDefaultCharset Off"?
And yes, I think HTTP headers take precedence over meta tags.
Comment 5 Christian Stimming 2006-11-17 09:03:53 UTC 
IIRC the mailing list archives had some encoding issues that were solved by setting the apache configuration to the current state.
Comment 6 Doug Latornell 2006-11-30 07:55:37 UTC 
Just noticed that the nightly build of the Concepts Guide from SVN (http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/) displays properly.
Comment 7 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:16:03 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375161. Please update any external references or bookmarks.