Meta charset declaration in the <head> of the page?

Tudor · June 2009

I'm currently evaluating Vanilla for building a discussion board in a foreign language. I noticed there is no meta charset declaration in the <head> of Vanilla generated pages. I know I could probably add it by editing some PHP file, but I'm wondering why is it not there by default.

sirlancelot · June 2009

The meta charset declarations in the HTML head are not required as long as the server sends the proper response in the HTTP headers.

If you want to add other strings to the <head> section of your Vanilla pages, it's very simple.

Create an extension with the following content:

<?php
/*
Extension Name: HTML Header Injector
Extension Url: http://lussumo.com/community/
Description: Add strings the the HTML header of every page
Version: 1
Author: Matthew Pietz
Author Url: http://lussumo.com/community/account.php?u=6720
*/

$Head->AddString('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />');

Tudor · June 2009

Thank you, this is perfect. :)

Meta charset declaration in the <head> of the page?

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