[Bug 19831] Investigate overrideMimeType()

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19831

--- Comment #5 from Hallvord R. M. Steen <hallvord@opera.com> ---
For test calling overrideMimeType() at readyState=4, trying to make the browser
handle a text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 as if it were sent with
application/xml;charset=UTF-8 :

IE 8 throws. End of story.

Firefox/Opera: don't throw. The call seems to have no effect whatsoever,
neither on decoding nor on responseXML.

Chrome: oddly enough, Chrome does something inbetween. The new MIME type is
applied, so request.responseXML is defined. The charset parameter has however
no effect, so we get a well-formed XML DOM full of mojibake. :-p

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