Ask HN Admins: Please indicate charset (UTF-8) inside your HTML
Would you please modify the web pages generated by Hacker News so that they indicate the content type internally, especially the encoding? In other words, would you please add the following tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
to your web pages' HEAD section?
My personal interest in this is to improve the Hourly Hacker News Snapshot (http://hhn.domador.net). For a long time, the archived pages frequently included a few gibberish characters when loaded from a web browser. (Smart quotes were the kind of characters that were most often displayed improperly.) I decided to finally get around to fixing this. I've modified my web server so that it indicates the UTF-8 charset in the HTTP headers. (EDITED SECTION)
There are probably others who would benefit from this change as well. What do you think?
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(EDIT: I removed the following text, when I found out that CloudFlare DOES pass along the Content-Type:
"Unfortunately, this solution is a bit limiting. I can no longer use CloudFlare to cache my website (since I can't customize CloudFlare to specify the Content Type). I could reprocess and hack the old pages to add the Content-Type section, but I'd prefer to modify the content I download as little as possible.")