Firefox sets wrong encoding to directory listings?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 11/25/2007 12:02 AM, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 11/24/2007 09:54 PM, Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> not sure if this is the right list, but I set up a http server for some
>> local network (so it is not accessible from outside) and would like to
>> have all the content in UTF-8 (I also use some non ISO-8859-1 characters
>> in file names), so I set up a HEADER.xhtml that is prepended to
>> directory listings (and the same file is included at the beginning of
>> the other pages) with this encoding settings:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> ...
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;
>> charset=UTF-8"/>
>>
>> So, I would suppose that browser detects the character encoding right
>> and selects UTF-8. However, while this is true for ordinal pages, for
>> directory listings it always selects ISO-8859-1. I also went through the
>> apache configuration files and tried both using AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
>> and not using it with the same result.
>>
>> As you might noticed, I thought at first that this is a server issue,
>> but I just tried it in ELinks and it works as expected. So, where the
>> problem lies? I have problems with it when using epiphany or firefox.
>> Should I file a bug against firefox?
> 
> The server supplied headers will always win.  My guess is that Apache is 
> sending Content-Type: text/html.  Which means your meta tags (why are 
> you sending two of them!?!) will have no effect.  And since the document 
> is text/html and being processed as such, your <?xml?> declaration also 
> has no effect.
> 

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214952