[pmwiki-users] html and xml charset

Wed Nov 21 09:16:49 CST 2007

I'm using this html header for a skin:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="$Charset"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
  "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="$Lang" lang="$Lang">

<head>
<title>The Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"	content="application/xhtml; 
charset=$Charset" />

I was thinking if there is a problem about using the $Charset variable for 
xhtml meta tag "cotent-type" and the xml tag.

Also if it is best to drop the use of "xml:lang" and "lang"  for the html tag 
but I see that PmWiki still uses it in $HTMLDoctypeFmt in version 
2.2.0-beta65 but not in pmwiki.tmpl.

$HTMLDoctypeFmt = "<!DOCTYPE html 
    PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\"
    \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">
  <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en' 
lang='en'><head>\n";

If by chance anyone knows about it, wich charset is honored by browsers, the 
one the server sends in the header or the one especified in a html meta tag - 
the same goes for content type.

TIA

CarlosAB