Re: Character set (charset) validation

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Markus Kramer wrote:

> So I put a META-tag in my document to denote the character set:
> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=....">

I've never understood the point of that. You already have to know that
the page is text/html to be able to parse the meta tag - something of
a paradox.

L.

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Received on Friday, 24 March 2000 07:53:18 UTC