Re: Encoding in the HTML/HTTP header

Jon Hanna wrote:
> 
> Martin Duerst wrote:
> 
>>
>> Two possibilities I can immagine:
>>
>> - The document is XML-based, the browser recognizes this, and
>>   the uses the UTF-8 default for XML documents.
>> - The browser analyses the byte sequences in the document and
>>   heuristically detects that the document looks like UTF-8.
>>   The chances for detecting UTF-8 correctly go up very quickly
>>   even with only very few non-ASCII characters.
> 
> 
> And goes up massively if the stream begins with a BOM (though using a 
> BOM with UTF-8 has other issues).
> 

OK - thanks, this makes sense. btw - my browsers are Mozilla 1.7 & IE 6 /XP.

Appreciated.

-mm