When a server sends: Content-Type: text/html; charset=unsupported what should a UA do? In the spec, "Determining the character encoding" says "If the transport layer specifies an encoding, return that encoding with the confidence /certain/, and abort these steps." so the encoding has the value "unsupported". (Step 7 of that algorithm (which defaults to something undefined, typically Windows-1252) is never reached, since step 1 returns.) Also the spec says "The bytes encode the actual characters according to a particular /character encoding/, which the user agent must use to decode the bytes into characters.", so it sounds like the UA must decode with the "unsupported" encoding, which it can't because it doesn't support that. I can't find anything that says to fall back to some other (supported) encoding. -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.ukReceived on Friday, 13 June 2008 15:07:28 GMT
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