well now, first off: i'm a frequent poster on the german subforum and unfortunately only rarely have the time to look around on all the international discussion going on, so it might be that this has been discussed before. in that case: i'm sorry, just point me there. thanx

second: the phenomenon i'm about to describe is to my current state of knowledge only affecting mozilla-derived browsers (that's mozilla itself, and the firefox) and has therefore been blamed on the browser software many times. but as far as my analysis can go, i must say that this is not fully true.

what i'm talking about is the random switching of character sets that can be extremly disturbing when writing in languages that contain special characters and leads to a lot of ugly posts in our local forum.

for me, there's one pretty simple reconstructable situation for the problem: whenever i post a reply or a quote (basically the same) and simply hit the submit button, everything will be alright. but as soon as i would like to preview my reply before submitting it all of the special chars would have been replaced by rubbish. at that exact point mozilla has switched display from iso-8859-1 to utf-8. switching back to iso-8859-1 solves the issue then - at least for me. unfortunately it seems as if other users have the same problem around other corners of the site.

i've done some further research on this and have found that there's two components causing this. one: the lack of a charset parameter on the tranceaddict site. two: mozilla partially misinterpreting the ta website as utf-8 where it should be iso-8859-1.

well, personally i've learned to deal with it by simply switching my browser back to the iso-8859-1 charset when i see it happening. but since i am receiving numerous questions about this from other annoyed local users (i posted about my research on the local forum) i thought i'd bring it here.

so what i'm basically asking is: would it be possible to fix this by introducing the charset header on the server side? or is the real problem much bigger, and there's other countries using other charsets (besided iso-8859-1) as default?

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