- From: Yi EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:18:57 +0900
- To: public-html@w3.org
> HTTP/1.1 is outdated in matters like this. It sets ISO-8859-1 as the > default encoding for all subtypes of the "text" type, but what browsers > actually do for "text/html" is more or less what HTML5 CR describes at > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#determining-the-character-encoding > And it is natural to assume that they behave similarly, to the extent > possible, for "text/plain". My browsers seem to end up with using > windows-1252, the same as they default for "text/html". Thanks to your reply, I have found my misunderstanding of my browser's behavior. The browser decode the document in EUC-KR I have chosen as an default character encoding in the browser preferences, not ISO-8859-1. > So the HTTP headers should really be fixed to specify charset=windows-1252. I really hope so. Thanks for your very detailed explanation!
Received on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:19:52 UTC