# This first-listed virtual host is also the default for *:80

Of course, the actual file encoding has to be UTF-8! A utf-8 charset http header can then be generated, which Firefox will recognize and display the file as UTF-8 encoded. Two ways around this that I've been looking at are:ġ] Apply some trivial patches to the source and build Firefox yourself to add a Unicode option to Preferences|Content|Fonts & Colors|Advanced|'Fallback Text Encoding' drop-down menu.Ģ] Run a local httpd server, and set up a Name-based Virtual Server, utfx, for the utf-8 encoded files in directory /my/utf-8/files. Setting fallback encoding to UTF-8 in Firefox has been deliberately blocked - see /show_bug.cgi?id=967981#c4. I tried to ask for a solution at the markdown command level, but that was rejected. usr/bin/markdown is owned by markdown 1.0.1-6 Using this markdown package: $ pacman -query -owns '$(which markdown)' I've also tried changing -8859-1 in about:config to various values like utf8, utf-8, iso-8859-1, with no luck. I've tried setting the changing the fallback text encoding from 'Default for Current Locale' (which here in the UK should be either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8) to 'Central European, ISO', 'Central European, Microsoft', and 'Other (incl. However, Firefox insists on using the 'windows-1252' encoding, breaking the non-ASCII characters. I've converted it to HTML using the markdown command: $ markdown > brukerveiledning.html < brukerveiledning.mdīrukerveiledning.html: UTF-8 Unicode text I've written a Norwegian markdown document: $ file brukerveiledning.md

Firefox text encoding not work