[pmwiki-users] Defaulting PmWiki to utf8

[Algardas]

Hans (2007-11-20 13:05):
> Looking at the issue of character sets I notice that in the skins I
> published the skin template has a content meta tag set as
> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
> 
> I never thought much about it, but do now: is this bad practise?
> Is it better a skin does not set a character set?
> 
> How is it set normally?
> 
> 
>   ~Hans
> 

I believe the charset meta tag is set by pmwiki and placed before the
<!--HTMLHeader--> in a skin template. So one shouldn't set it manually.

But I also think that if one uses the iso-8859-1 encoding, the charset
meta tag is not needed. Am I wrong?


-- 
Algardas