[Forum] Charset: Windows-1252 vs. 8859-1 help!

[Adam Wolf]

I'm getting a warning from my HTML validator when running my site through it:

Warning: Using windows-1252 instead of the declared encoding iso-8859-1

I see where the encoding is to be set in the language files it is set to 8859-1, but my question is why is my system using windows-1252, and how can I change it to 8859? This occurs on all vbulletin pages.

thanks!

[Wayne Luke]

What do you have set for your language under Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager.

Once installed, vBulletin doesn't use Language Files. Everything is stored in the database.

[Adam Wolf]

in the language manager, it is:
8859-1

but again, the validator is reporting that even though the page is being presented as ISO-8859-1 (ie, meta charset=8859-1), the actual encoding is windows-1252. Should I just change the setting in the language manager to windows-1252? was that the default for vbulletin way back when? (my site is on 4.2, it began over 10 years ago on whatever the latest release was in 2001 )

[Wayne Luke]

For English, it has always been ISO-8859-1. ISO-8859-1 is a subset of Windows-1252. The validator might simply want the superset of Windows-1252.