Re: <meta> tags and their practical use

On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:22:43 -0500
Brant Langer Gurganus <brantgurganus2001@cherokeescouting.org> wrote:

| Also, when editing a local file, you do not get the headers sent by the 
| HTTP server so the meta header clues the editor to what character set to
| use.

Also I believe the HTML spec suggests that web servers could look at the <meta> tags when determining which HTTP headers to send.

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