Report Manager 2005 Help 
The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Report Manager web application has help pages in several languages. They display nicely in IE, but in Firefox they are reduced to a mere 
 is the unicode byte-order mark, coded in UTF-8. A first inspection with Firebug revealed that this application does not set the charset in the http header. So IE guesses the charset, while Firefox follows the standard default ISO-8859-1, and displays 
Omitting the charset header is never a good idea, but adding UTF-8 charset information did not solve the problem. While it shows some text in Firefox, German umlauts and other special characters where only visible in the table of contents, not in the main text. It turns out that some files (index.htm, tocParas.js, tocTab.js, noscript_toc.htm) are in UTF-8, while others are in ISO. In every language. A bulk charset converter would be handy…
Addendum 26.08.08: The same issue exists in SQL Server 2008.
Posted: March 27th, 2008 under SQL Server, IIS.
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