Local charset and SWAT

Thu Aug 26 03:50:40 GMT 1999

Jeremy Allison <jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>> I strongly suggest, that SWAT returns charset tag in all it's message. It should
>> be local charset as configured in smb.conf. It implies, that charset tags be
>> better official registered MIME charset tags or at least the tags, used in WWW.
>
>Sounds good to me. Can you tell me what that tag looks
>like and where it would be output (not knowing much about
>HTML responses).

In HTML, you can specify character set by using <META> tag in <HEAD>. Like this:

    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
	<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP">
	<TITLE>HTML in ISO-2022-JP</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
	<P>Test messages in ISO-2022-JP</P>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

In HTTP, using Content-Type header with charset:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP

    BODY PART...

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