How to tell the Browser the character encoding of a HTML website regardless of Server Content.-Type Headers?
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I have a HTML page that correctly (the encoding of the physical on disk matches it) announces it's Content-Type:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=
"text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title> ...
Opening the file from disk in browser (Google Chrome, Firefox) works fine.
Requesting it via HTTP, the webserver sends a different Content-Type header:
$ curl -I http:/example.com/file.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:57:13 GMT
...
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
(see last line). The browser then uses ISO-8859-1 to display which is an unwanted result.
Is there a common way to override the server headers send to the browser from within the HTML document?
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