944671 - hetq.am should migrate its archive from x-user-defined-labeled ARMSCII-8 to UTF-8

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

http://archive.hetq.am/arm/ is encoded in ARMSCII-8 but is declared as x-user-defined, which makes the site fail to render correctly out-of-the-box in any browser but makes the site readable in Chrome and IE if the user has installed an intentionally mis-encoded font called Arial AM.

To make the archives readable without special trickery, the site should convert the old files from ARMSCII-8 to UTF-8 and change the declaration from x-user-defined to UTF-8.

Alternatively, once bug 213517, the site could (font license permitting) add Arial AM as a @font-face font, which would make the site work visually cross-browser without users having to have the font installed. Conversion to UTF-8 would be a better solution, though, because unlike the font hack, it would make clipboard and search work.

Comment 1

[j.j.]

http://archive.hetq.am/arm/  returns 404, but on 
http://hetq.am/arm/search/?q=archive
(also on http://hetq.am/arm/news/)
there is an archive calendar where you can search articles back to 2003. Example:
http://hetq.am/arm/news/7078/

Older articles (if there were any) seem not to be available.
All works fine and is declared and encoded as utf-8.

I'd say this is FIXED.