How does server decide what text encoding for response?
How does server decide what text encoding for response?
- Subject: How does server decide what text encoding for response?
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:37:29 -0800
Yes, it's a very weird topic, but I can't think of a more on-topic
forum in which to post this.
My app retrieves an rss feed of Google Bookmarks from
http://google.com/bookmarks?output=rss
Now, when I send this, I get back a feed that is encoded UTF8. But
I've got one user, also here in western USA, who sent me a log proving
that Google sends him a feed encoded ISO-8859-1 when he logs into one
of ^^my^^ Google accounts (for which I gave him my password). That
is, his feed begins like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
So, we have two Macs, his and mine, both in western USA, both querying
the same Google account. Google sends my Mac UTF8, but sends his Mac
ISO-8859-1. Repeatable. How can this be? Does the URL Loading
System add anything to a request under the hood which might cause
Google to think that he wants ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF8?
That would be odd, since this user is Korean-American. Although his
top language in System Preferences > International is English, he has
more boxes checked in the "Input" tab than I do.
Jerry Krinock
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