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@charset rule =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Patt 10-06-2007
|--> Re: @charset rule André Gillibert10-06-2007
---> Re: @charset rule Harlan Messinge...10-06-2007
---> Re: @charset rule =?ISO-8859-1?Q?...10-06-2007
| |--> Re: @charset rule Harlan Messinge...10-06-2007
| `--> Re: @charset rule Jukka K. Korpel...10-06-2007
`--> Re: @charset rule =?ISO-8859-1?Q?...10-07-2007
Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Patt on October 6, 2007, 9:31 am
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 Bonjour,

I am wondering why the @charset rule is not working for me.

I put at the early beginning of my index.css file:

@charset "utf-8";

no line before....

and in every html file:

<link rel="STYLESHEET" href="index.css">

Everything is OK for all style definitions made in the index.css
(background, fonts style, size, and so on....

Only the charset definition is not working.... Browsers always return
ISO8859-1!!!

If I add this line in html files:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >

it works....

Boring!

What's wrong?

Thank you
--
François Patte
Université Paris 5 - Paris

Posted by André Gillibert on October 6, 2007, 9:40 am
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 François Patte wrote:

> Bonjour,
>
> I am wondering why the @charset rule is not working for me.
>
> I put at the early beginning of my index.css file:
>
> @charset "utf-8";
>
> no line before....
>
> and in every html file:
>
> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="index.css">
>
> Everything is OK for all style definitions made in the index.css
> (background, fonts style, size, and so on....
>
> Only the charset definition is not working.... Browsers always return
> ISO8859-1!!!
>

You didn't specified what "returns ISO8859-1" means.
I guess that you may not have understood that the charset directive
defines the charset of the CSS file, not the HTML file.

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Posted by Lars Eighner on October 6, 2007, 9:48 am
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In our last episode,
the lovely and talented François Patte
broadcast on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

> Bonjour,

> I am wondering why the @charset rule is not working for me.

> I put at the early beginning of my index.css file:

> @charset "utf-8";

This only declares the charset of the *stylesheet.* It is not clear that
any browser honors it.

> no line before....

> and in every html file:

><link rel="STYLESHEET" href="index.css">

> Everything is OK for all style definitions made in the index.css
> (background, fonts style, size, and so on....

> Only the charset definition is not working.... Browsers always return
> ISO8859-1!!!

So far you have done nothing that declare the charset of the html
document. What is being identified as iso-8859-1? If it is the html
document, the browsers are probably right. That is the default for html.

> If I add this line in html files:

> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >

> it works....

> Boring!

> What's wrong?

Nothing in the stylesheet should be expected to affect the content of an
html document. You certainly cannot declare the html charset in a
stylesheet. I do not know whether the @charset in a stylesheet is effective
in any browser, but if it is, it should apply only to the stylesheet itself.

> Thank you
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Posted by Harlan Messinger on October 6, 2007, 9:48 am
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François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I am wondering why the @charset rule is not working for me.
>
> I put at the early beginning of my index.css file:
>
> @charset "utf-8";
>
> no line before....
>
> and in every html file:
>
> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="index.css">
>
> Everything is OK for all style definitions made in the index.css
> (background, fonts style, size, and so on....
>
> Only the charset definition is not working.... Browsers always return
> ISO8859-1!!!

The @charset rule specifies only the encoding of the stylesheet. It
doesn't specify the encoding of the web page that links to the
stylesheet. It can't--the page's content can be completely processed and
the document model completely built in memory by the time the stylesheet
gets to the browser.

Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Patt on October 6, 2007, 10:18 am
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Harlan Messinger a écrit :
> François Patte wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> I am wondering why the @charset rule is not working for me.
>>
>> I put at the early beginning of my index.css file:
>>
>> @charset "utf-8";
>>
>> no line before....
>>
>> and in every html file:
>>
>> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="index.css">
>>
>> Everything is OK for all style definitions made in the index.css
>> (background, fonts style, size, and so on....
>>
>> Only the charset definition is not working.... Browsers always return
>> ISO8859-1!!!
>
> The @charset rule specifies only the encoding of the stylesheet. It
> doesn't specify the encoding of the web page that links to the
> stylesheet. It can't--the page's content can be completely processed and
> the document model completely built in memory by the time the stylesheet
> gets to the browser.

Thanks to all. I did not understand that this declaration was limited to
the css file only...

And now I don't understand why it is necessary to declare the charset of
the css file.

--
François Patte
Université Paris 5 - Paris

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