[Bug 235211] Re: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/ content encoding error

[hackel]

The howtogeek.com page works fine for me, the encoding is ISO-8859-5,
which is odd since it appears to be an English-language site.  The
encoding does not appear to be explicitly set in the HTTP headers nor in
the HTML, and as a result Firefox is just guessing at the encoding.  I
don't know how it chooses Cyrillic, though.  The site obviously does not
deal well with encodings at all, as in the comments some people's names
are encoded in ISO-8859-1, others in utf-8 (presumably whatever their
client was set to when they submitted their name).

I get the same error on http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/ (which
properly identifies itself as utf-8) but only when accessing it via
SOCKS proxy server (actually SSH dynamic tunnel).  After switching it to
the standard HTTP proxy I'm behind  the problem went away.

I have seen several other references to this issue and haven't found
anything in common between the sites in question.  It's very strange.

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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/ content encoding error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235211
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