Re: ISO-Latin 1 as default encoding

In this version, Amaya generates a meta element indicating the
charset only when the language of the whole document is indicated
by a lang attribute on the html or body elements.
This information about character encoding is generated when
the editor saves the document.

Vincent.

Serge Torres wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did not notice the change in encoding until Vincent Quint pointed it out.
> But does it mean we should add a charset attribute in the meta that holds
> the http-equiv, as adviced by HTML 4 RFC (5.2.2 : "... Therefore, user
> agents must not assume any default value for the "charset" parameter
> ...").? Amaya does not do it automatically, at least, on "old" (pre
> encoding switch) documents.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Serge Torres
> 
> Ecole normale superieure (France)

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Received on Wednesday, 22 December 1999 05:34:39 UTC