Re: japanese encoding nightmare

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:11:18PM -0500, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> This http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-http-equiv says
> (emphasis mine): "HTTP servers *MAY* use the property name specified by the
> http-equiv attribute to create an [RFC822]-style header in the HTTP
> response."  That would imply they might not, and if so the browser would
> have to handle, no?

No, just that the server should use some other means to determine the
character encoding of the document (generally "use the configured
value").

> Anyway, just wanted to point this out (it is a shame the recommendation
> didn't say "MUST" instead of "MAY")

Ouch, every HTTPD an HTML parser? Ouch!

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk

Received on Monday, 13 November 2006 23:18:09 UTC