Support short meta charset tag

[tzi]

Hi !

Unless I am mistaken, I think weasyprint des not support the short meta charset tag:

<meta charset="utf-8">

But works fine with the complete one:

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

Most of html5 website use the short one.
Because it is simpler and I think enought according to the specification.

Thanks for sharing weasyprint,
Thomas.

[SimonSapin]

Hi,

Thank you for this report. WeasyPrint just uses libxml2 (through lxml) to parse HTML. The handling of <meta> elements to detect character encoding is there. The good news is, this bug is fixed in version 2.8.0 of libxml2:

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk)

If you can upgrade libxml2 on your system, it should just work.

If you can not upgrade for some reason, another option is to use the html5lib parser. You should be able to do so with the git version of WeasyPrint and the workaround in #12 (comment)

[tzi]

Thanks for your answer !