ChanandlerBong - 3:34 am on Sep 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

yes, I do nothing in the htaccess for mime type - so you're saying that my server is sending a default mime type and that, technically, if I don't declare the type in a meta tag nor in the htaccess, that the webpage should always get seen as plain text (whether locally or via the server) unless I specifically declare the mime type?

at the moment, my pages are being served fine online, but having them come out in plain text locally is driving me crazy and the only way I can prevent that (now all pages are correctly encoded as UTF-8) is to add the content-type meta tag.

[edited by: ChanandlerBong at 3:38 am (utc) on Sep 17, 2012]