Re: flakey charset detection

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, David Brownell wrote:

> >>More have found that using anything _except_ text/html is completely
> >>unworkable.

Would that be due to sparse support amongst web browsers?

> > There is another option, one which seems to be often overlooked.
> > Use HTML 4.01.
> 
> Not an option when the goal is to use XML-only toolsets to
> read and write the content.  That's why it can be overlooked.

Evidently not.  What XML-only toolsets "work" only with text/html?

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Nick Kew