Walter Betschart
If you right click into this web page, and choose "View Frame Information" you can see something like: Content-Type: text/html Means, this site does not send the information, which charset is used in this frame. (Different frames may use different charsets). (In the case, the site would send this information, you would see something like "Content-Type: text/html; charset: iso-8859-1")
Yes, this site doesn't send this information in the http header. It does sent it in the source though, you see that with "View Document Source Ctrl+U". But it does that only once and not again for every frame. You see that with "Right click -> Frame -> View Frame Source" on the frames. I think this is a bug of the page, each frame could have a different encoding, therefore each frame should specify the encoding.
Now I expect, it should help to change the charset with: View - Set encoding - Western European iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15 But unfortunately this does not work for this page. It probably just changes the encoding for the main frame of the web page. But I am not sure about that.
Now I change the default encoding in "Settings - Configure Konqueror - Fonts" to "iso-8859-15". And reload the page. And the Umlauts are displayed.
In my opinion, default encoding should be set to iso-8859-15 in our region. Because most web sites here not sending the information about charsets, use iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15. On the other hand, most sites using UTF-8 are sending this information.
I agree. This page displays correctly for me if I open the
Konqueror setup dialog
Setup -> Konqueror Setup -> Fonts -> Standard Encoding
and select "iso-8859-1" as the standard encoding there.
I agree with you that "iso-8859-1" should be the default here. In my
experience as well, sites which fail to supply the correct information
are always "iso-8859-1". I have not yet encountered a single example
of a page which is *not* "iso-8859-1" and fails to give that
information.
But there are many sites which are "iso-8859-1" but don't supply
that information. http://www.ebay.de is another example.
http://www.ebay.de will not be displayed correctly with Konqueror
either unless you set "iso-8859-1" as the standard encoding, switch
the auto detection to "Western Europe" or force the encoding manually
to "iso-8859-1".
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Mike FABIAN