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

[Tim]

On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 18:19 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> Does have the correct locale/language settings? Look in EDIT/
> PREFERENCES/CONTENT and click "choose". 

That setting doesn't do what you think it does.

It allows you to set a option in your browser which will tell websites
which languages you can read, and which ones you prefer - this
information is sent to webservers in the request headers for any pages
it fetches.  *If* the website is multi-lingual, it could automatically
serve you the pages that suit your preferences.  Though, those few sites
that are multilingual, rarely actually make use of the (content
negotiation) feature - they get you to click on a link to change to a
different language, and use cookies to preserve that choice during the
browsing session.

As far as dealing with websites which have the wrong encoding (i.e. they
say one thing, but actually provide another), or simply don't declare
what encoding they use (and it's different from the presumed US-ASCII),
you have a different configuration for setting the default character
encoding.  And there used to be a menu setting for changing the current
page decoding, without changing defaults.

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