um ... why are my wiki pages suddenly rendering "fi" in olde english?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Jun 17 16:09:19 UTC 2015


On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Tom Horsley wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > thoughts?
>
> Possibly something to do with the charset specified in the headers
> the web server claims to be serving versus the actual charset of
> the data on the pages? I don't recall seeing a problem with "fi"
> before, but I encounter web pages every day where the pages
> were actually produced by some Windows tool using some windows
> encoding, yet the server claims the encoding is UTF-8. This
> always causes all sorts of nonsense rendering in browsers which
> actually believe what they are told.

  can *you* see the issue i'm describing? i just fired up midori and
things look fine with midori, so it's firefox that appears to be
having the issue.

rday

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