- From: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 14:09:40 -0500
- To: www-international <www-international@w3.org>
À 10:03 04-12-96 -0800, Erik van der Poel a écrit : >Servers cannot send UTF-8 to clients unless they know that the client is >capable of decoding it or there is a large critical mass of browsers in >the installed base that is known to be capable of decoding UTF-8. The same holds for Shift-JIS, KOI-8, Latin-2, and any of a number of charsets that are sent by servers today, even in some cases knowing that widespread support by browsers is lacking. Absence of Accept-Charset means "send anything", so servers are free to send what it takes to represent the document. If that's UTF-8, the server should send that, knowing that not many current browsers will be able to deal with it. And please label it correctly. -- François Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com> Alis Technologies Inc., Montréal Tél : +1 (514) 747-2547 Fax : +1 (514) 747-2561
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