Character Encoding Problem in Anusaaraka Urdu to Devanagari transliteration script

While test driving the latest firefox3 I found that the Anusaaraka Urdu to Devanagari transliteration system was not working as expected. After looking around I figured out that the CGI script was setting the page encoding to Western (ISO-8859-1) instead of standard unicode(UTF-8). Perhaps the developers should note that setting correct parameters in HTML/XHTML meta elements is not enough. You need to set the proper encoding via the HTTP headers returned by the Web server, in this case I guess the CGI script didn't do that and the web server sent the default headers.

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Often character encoding issue like this is mistaken for missing fonts or worse lack of proper support in the web browser (sic).

After changing to Unicode (UTF-8)