Mike Miller wrote: > OK. This means I have to get the sysadmin in on it. I don't want to do > that, so I'm going to try iconv: > > iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=ISO-8859-1 gaw15_problem_3_papers.html | grep -v "<meta" > gaw15_test.html > > It works! > > before: > http://genetsim.org/class/gaw15_problem_3_papers.html > > after: > http://genetsim.org/class/gaw15_test.html > > There's a solution. Not the one I wanted, but good enough for now. I'm > still in a quandry over why Firefox doesn't see the meta tag and display > the utf-8 correctly. It worked on one system and not the other. > FYI, here's the http header exchange when I go to http://genetsim.org/class/gaw15_problem_3_papers.html with Iceweasel. --- GET /class/gaw15_problem_3_papers.html HTTP/1.1 Host: genetsim.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Iceweasel/3.5.8 (like Firefox/3.5.8) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:14:17 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Last-Modified: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:39:50 GMT Etag: "39c065-52b4-2dee2d80" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 21172 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 --- You added the UTF-8 meta tag to the page, but your http headers say ISO-8859-1. I don't know which takes precedence. Here's what I get at http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/temp/gaw15_paper_page.html --- GET /~mbmiller/temp/gaw15_paper_page.html HTTP/1.1 Host: mlug.missouri.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Iceweasel/3.5.8 (like Firefox/3.5.8) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:20:22 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/4.4.4-8+etch6 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c Last-Modified: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:39:50 GMT Etag: "d-52b4-2dee2d80" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 21172 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html ---