'Mixing encodings with an HTML page'

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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Mixing encodings with an HTML page
From:       Brunet Eric <Eric.Brunet () physics ! unige ! ch>
Date:       2001-03-07 10:18:18
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Hello all,

I have already asked this question on this mailing list a couple of weeks
ago and got no answer. Of course, this was just during the final freeze
of kde 2.1, and everybody was busy fixing the few remaining bugs. Now I
think that people have more time to discuss about future improvments of
konqueror...

My problem is the following: suppose I have an HTML file which looks like
that:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7" />
</head>

<body>

Ù<p> <!-- character 0xd7;  uppercase omega in latin-7 encoding -->

&eacute;<p> <!-- this one is not in latin 7 --!>

&#1044; <!-- U+0414; CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE. Not in latin-7 -->

</body>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is I believe a perfectly valid html file, but as far as I can tell,
there is no way to have konqueror display it properly. There should be
three lines, an uppercase omega (greek), a small e with acute (western europe)
and an uppercase de (russian). If I let the encoding to auto in
konqueror, the omega is correct and I have then two question marks. If I
choose a latin-1 encoding, then I have the small e with acute, but the
omega looks like a capital u with grave and the de like a question mark.
Finally, if I choose an utf-8 encoding, then both the small e with acute
and the capital de are correct, but the omega is not there. (And it is
even worse than that: while trying to interpret the 0xd7 as a multi-byte
sequence, the parser ``ate'' the <, and the result looks like 
[weird character]p>é...)

So it looks that konqueror is not able to display a page by using
characters from different fonts with different encodings.

Is there any chance that in a near future, the best browser in the world
would be able to handle such pages ?

Éric Brunet

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