- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:39:22 +0100
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-JP"> [DJW:] This should be irrelevant to the handling of entities as, conceptually, the characters are converted from this character set into Unicode (ISO 8859-1 for some earlier versions of HTML - ISO 8859/1 is the 8 bit subset of Unicode) before the HTML and entities are parsed. Also, although this has been legitimised by the specifications, one should really use real HTTP headers for this purpose; they always take precedence and probably work on a superset of the browsers that understand this client side use of the the server side meta http-equiv construct.
Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2000 12:45:47 UTC