Problem with "charset=ISO-8859-1" about vscode-livepreview

[andreamah]

I'm not sure if I'm reproducing this correctly. I tried using the ISO-8859-1 charset for the file and as a head tag, but I'm seeing the symbol in live preview. Can you paste your code?

[mortensp]

Hi.

I have insolated the problem and made a small demo. It all comes down to the load() method. In the demo I have one div tag in the (main) demo.html and the same in "include.html", which is loaded below the first. My demo fails to display the loaded text correct, but it displays fine when run in Chrome. If I out-comment line 19 it's just the opposite.
I have include the project as a zip file!
LivePreviewDemo.zip

Include.html:

demo.,html:

[andreamah]

Hmm, I noticed that if I set the encoding in the editor, it displays correctly. Have you tried this out?

[mortensp]

I always have charset ISO-8859-1 in the VS Code editor as you can se below. And I notice, that it doesn't display correct in your screen dump either! Here is my screen dump with the same page shown in Chrome (after hitting F5) on the right side.

I just noted that there is a difference in the "letters" displayed:
with line 19 active: ������
without line 19: ������

Could it be some kind of double conversion - from UTF-8 to iso 8859-1 and then again from what is supposed to be UTF-8 to iso 8859-1?

ps. When I first started coding, VS code was set to UTF-8 as standard and I typed in some danish letters which looked fine until I ran the html page. The I changed the charset in the editor which made it all unreadable. So I had to retype the special characters. Could I be that your VS code was opened with UTF-8 on my code?

[andreamah]

I have a feeling that it might be an issue with how I host the content

vscode-livepreview/src/editorPreview/webviewComm.ts

Line 215 in 8e70e72

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

I will need to experiment with this to see whether it's the cause or whether there's a better way to set this.

[leonbloy]

I've noticed something similar.

If I save a testlatin.html webpage with Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) charset encoding, then when I get it via the server
curl -v http://127.0.0.1:3000/testlatin.html | od -t x1z
I get it in UTF-8.
Not only the http header says Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 , but the content itself appears to have been converted to UTF-8. The meta tag <meta charset="ISO-8859-1" /> has no effect.
I dont't know who is doing the conversion, but it seems confusing.