[Typo3-dev] xhtml, xml prologue

Sun Mar 28 20:02:06 CEST 2004

 *hiya!*

---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="XXX"?>
<DOCTYPE...>
<html> ....
---

 This so called xml prologue causes problems in certain browsers 
 (e.g. IE 6).

 The solution for this in 3.6 seems to be to swap the <?xml stuff for
 the doctype, what's rather odd.

 The following is stated in the XHTML definition
 (see: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative)
---
Such a declaration is required when the character encoding of the
document is other than the default UTF-8 or UTF-16 and no encoding was
determined by a higher-level protocol.
---

 So my suggestion is to skip the xml prologue (if not explicitly
 claimed) and use this "higher-level protocol" (= http) to set the
 appropriate character encoding, either through PHP with
---
header ('Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1');
---
 and/or by the following settings in a local .htaccess file
---
AddType 'text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' html
---

 bye
 Wolfgang