Questions tagged [content-encoding]
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What is this symbol (appears before line break)?
On Pixel 6 (Android) using the Chrome browser, there's this strange symbol I've never seen before that usually appears before some of the line breaks on my website. Does anyone have any idea what this ...
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Why does Pingdom Tools tell me to Compress components with gzip
On Pingdom Tools I get a message to Compress components with gzip. We use asp.net on Windows 2016 server (IIS10). I have set in web.config the following <httpCompression> <staticTypes&...
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Is it correct that I no longer need to escape Extended Latin characters in HTML when using UTF-8 encoding?
Some background first: 2003 - 2010 In 2003, I switched from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0 and encoded my XHTML documents, using: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-...
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Can file encoding change when FTP is used?
I'm developing a web application which downloads a number of web pages using PHP curl. It then uses diff to compare the files as they change each day. I reported a problem a few weeks back where ...
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Do characters encoded as HTML entities affect SEO?
We have a website made in asp.net with razor engine. The razor engine encodes the content from source/database. So, for example, the letter ö becomes ö if I look at the source code in the ...
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Accept-Encoding: lzf - Browser compatibility list?
Per the title, I'm looking for a browser capability list for Accept-Encoding: lzf - I'd like to use lzf encoding but I'm not which browsers support it and couldn't find a list. Thanks in advance
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What is the true filename on my server?
I have created a pdf under the name André.pdf on my server. However, I am not sure if this is the actual filename. I first assumed André.pdf is the actual filename because I can access it through ...
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After change to new software stack, Chinese pages require setting encoding in browser
We changed to a new server with a completely upgraded software stack, including apache 2.4 and php 5.6.9. We have a page in Simplified Chinese. On our old server (apache 2.2, php 5.3.5), the pages ...
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Append encoding information to HTTP response headers
I have an old web application (not maintained anymore) of which a small part is still needed; this is displayed in iframes. Unfortunately, the old application uses ISO-8859-1 encoding (which it doesn'...
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Global UTF-encoding, the right way
I'm curious, as to what is the right way to have UTF-8 encoding on all web files All my files (incl. CSS and JS) are made and saved in UTF-8 encoding In PHP, I set the char-set on top of the main ...
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advantages and disadvantages of base64 image strings
I discovered that you can covert images into base64 strings and use those string within img tags and css like this: <img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAhEUgAAA ... FTkSuQmCC" /> ...
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Encoding fails whatever I try
I am trying to set my site's encoding to UTF-8 but I fail. Environment: Ubuntu Desktop 13.04, Apache 2.2, PHP+FPM. Added a .htacces: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Meta: file -bi * output: inode/directory; ...
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How UTF-8 represents more than 256 characters and when to use UTF-16?
We all know what character encoding is. Like the simple ASCII 7 bit used for normal 128 characters representing and UTF-8 for representing 256 characters. I have 2 questions: Some people saying UTF-8 ...
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How to tell the Browser the character encoding of a HTML website regardless of Server Content-Type Header?
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> &...
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What encoding do most users prefer to have?
Is there any site, chart, or raw data that shows how much of user have used Unicode (UTF-8) or Western (ISO-8859-1) or Chinese and so. Or provide rough data of what is used in major number of sites. ...
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