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FS#3020 - webpages lack proper doctypes

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Not Important (pholie) - Monday, 01 August 2005, 11:41 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Wednesday, 02 November 2005, 09:42 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

http://archlinux.org/ and others don't have <!DOCTYPE>. It is very first rule for creating webpages ;)

Next, http://bbs.archlinux.org/ claims to be charset=iso-8859-1 but (not only) in Other Languages forum, people use international characters, it would be better if it was utf-8, wouldn't it?

I recommend http://validator.w3.org/ for making standards-compliant webpages.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 12:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Monday, 01 August 2005, 21:36 GMT
this takes a bit more since the meta tag charset is a fallback if the http header communication doesn't send a charset:
[tobias@buran ~]$ curl -I http://bbs.archlinux.org/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:31:02 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.4
Set-Cookie: archlinuxbbs_data=xxxx; expires=Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:31:02 GMT; path=/; domain=bbs.archlinux.org
Set-Cookie: archlinuxbbs_sid=xxxxxxxxx; path=/; domain=bbs.archlinux.org
Cache-Control: private, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0
Expires: 0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

To make that right, we would have to approve that phpBB really takes care of utf-8 on output AND input(which is usually the problem) and the database store the data correctly.

Everything else would be a matter of
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
in .htaccess or vhost configuration
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 15 October 2006, 12:48 GMT
Fixed in new website.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 15 October 2006, 12:49 GMT
http://bbs.archlinux.org/ still claims charset=iso-8859-1 however.

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